I got an Amiga 500 about 6 years ago for the first time. I can't for the life of me remember how I got it, I probably bought it from a guy I knew locally. Anyway, thankfully I had an awesome Commodore 1084 monitor, which I later modded to include SCART input.
I will always have fond memories of the A500, I didn't have a lot of games for it, so I had to find a way to copy adf files on floppies. However, as most of you know, the Amiga uses a different floppy drive, which results in floppies being formatted at 880KB, if I'm not mistaken. So I found out that I could transfer adf files through the serial ports and copy them on the fly, which as you can imagine was quite slow, it took about 8 minutes per floppy and sometimes floppies went bad so you had to try all over again. This would have been okay if Amiga games were at most a two floppy disks affair, however they usually were around 4 or even higher.
So, that was a lot of fun, but I wanted to get an A1200 and add an HDD to it. I got one in the end, but I never managed to get it working properly. I had bought a RAM trapdoor expansion for WHDLoad, SD2IDE adapter and I thought I was ready to go, but initially I thought the power supply was failing. I tried one of the bulkier ones later on and I would still get system hangs for no apparent reason. Something was very wrong indeed and I never figured out what was going, the machine worked wonders without the expansions. So, frustration and increasing study obligations, led me to sell them. Including the 1084 monitor which I still think I should have never parted with, I loved that thing.
I found another A500 about a year ago and I have a PSU, but not much else. I'd need a mouse (or preferably PS/2 adaptor) and SCART cables to use it. I also have no Amiga floppy games any more, although I might dig out the old serial cable for some slow as hell transfers 🤣 .