I was once a keen Amiga enthusiast and I used to read Amiga Format. They ran competitions every month, but I never entered any. David and I were visiting our Father one weekend, and Amiga Format was running it’s biggest competition ever, two whole pages of general knowledge questions – the prize was an Amiga 570 CD Drive. As there were no plans to do anything that weekend (like most weekends we went over to spend time with him), we decided to have a crack at the questions. This was before the days of the internet, so finding the answers was long-winded and at times fraught with conflicting potential answers. Eventually we had an answer for all the questions, and it turns out, we got them all right.
As soon as we sent off our entry, we forgot about it, never expecting to win – It was just a way to pass the time! We never noticed the tiny little feature in a future issue of the magazine notifying us of our win, the first time we knew we’d won was when it turned up in the post! Now, in the time between entering the competition and receiving the prize, we upgraded our Amiga 500+ to an Amiga 1200, not even considering that we would win. Funny thing is, the Amiga 570 CD Drive isn’t compatible with an Amiga 1200. We had just won something totally pointless. We never got any use from it, and for the most part it stayed in it’s box, being useless. For some reason we kept it, and it was only when we moved over here with Jane’s Mum and Dad that I put it on eBay.
Let’s hope the next thing we win is more useful, eh?
