[TacticalCoder]

> For a long time an Amiga 500 with 1MB RAM expansion and a 24 pin dot matrix printer was my main and only computer ...

Same, with the dot-matrix printer too. I'd update and print my D&D character page on it. Kickstart 1.2 and 1.3 ROM switch mod. I also had a not-so-common 5"1/4 drive (but not the ultra-rare official Commodore one): just a a 5"1/4 drive used instead of the 3"1/2 stock one. The reasons being: 5"1/4 floppies were so much cheaper than 3"1/2 ones that after something silly like 40 floppies, the drive had paid for itself. And we had many games (sorry, backups). So many backups.

> All of this you could also do on an Atari ST, although I'd argue that the Amiga had the better operating system.

The better OS and the much better co-processors. The ST however had the MIDI port so the cool dudes back then would hook up their MOOG synths to Atari STs, not Amigas.

Also the ST had the game "Sundog: The Frozen Legacy", from FTL (the company that'd then go on and make Dungeon Master). Legends. For whatever reason the Amiga didn't have Sundog: The Frozen Legacy.

I'd do everything on my Amiga except play Sundog (I'd go the neighbors' house for that) and play Ultima IV and Ultima V (the C64 version was much better than the Amiga version, so I had an old C128D to play the Ultimas).