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A history of the Amiga, part 1: Genesis
arstechnica.com — Part One of a multipart series on a different kind of computer. Not DOS/Windows, not Apple Macintosh, or even Linux. This one was a little bit different. Unfortunately, it is no longer around, but it left its mark on the computer industry before its untimely demise.
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- ZutroyZuuts, on 06/29/2008, -0/+14There doesn't seem to be a way to read the next article in the series, so here are the links.
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I owned 3 Amigas in the 80's. At the time they were way more advanced than PCs. I used to laugh at PC owners!
It's a shame they didn't keep up the advantage. I think the equivalent these days would be like a 10ghz processor and a graphics card 10x faster than the GTX 280. - Carthagefield, on 06/29/2008, -0/+6The Amiga 500. Ah, happy days!
*For old times sake
http://members.fortunecity.co.uk/amigaemulation/hp ... - Fangsinmybeard, on 06/30/2008, -0/+3What a crappy thing to do, infiltrate a mole into a competitors company for sole purpose of bringing it down.
- craighoxton, on 06/30/2008, -0/+4My Amiga 500 was the first ever computer in our house back in 1989 and it cost £300 which was a LOT back then. My favourite games were sims like Their Finest Hour, 688 Attack Sub and F29 Retaliator. One weekend I wanted to sit and study the Amiga Basic manual but went off and did something else instead - I could have been in IT if I'd sat and go into programming...
- bratterscain, on 06/30/2008, -0/+1Reminds me of me. My first PC was a CoCo 3 which had a BASIC manual and no hard drive with it. So I wrote (copied) a program from the book, probably 100+ lines which took way too long if you were a 10 year old who didn't know how to type. It was painful having to shut the computer off after all the time typing and losing my program. If I only had a hard drive and realized the implications of computers, I may have stuck with it and perhaps coding today but I lack the patience I used to.
- reuscel, on 06/30/2008, -0/+5I had a Commodore 64, but all I ever wanted as a nerdy kid in the 80s was an Amiga.
- built2spill, on 06/30/2008, -0/+4I didn't retire my Amiga 2000HD until 1997. Great machine, even when it was old. It took Apple and 'Wintel' a long time to catch up. I still use some of skills that it taught me.
Relive some of the old times with an emulator - I was playing the original Lemmings just a few days ago.
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