Yeah, the Amiga piracy was ridiculous and no-one seemed to realise we were doing something illegal. Like one of my dads friends had links to Fairlight and my hometown processed the coverdisks for one of the big Amiga magazines. So my family used to buy the disks that factory were going to bin for 5p a pop, send a shoebox full up to my dads friend, then just recieve games.
We had to A500+s that died, but both were the TV Modulator. Got it replaced with an A600 and it was all good.!
Yeah, the Amiga and the PS1 was the consoles I had which we just pirated to hell. The PS1 especially, got that chip installed at the back and went to town.