Linked by Eugenia Loli on Sat 2nd Sep 2006 19:43 UTC, submitted by Saad
The Amiga changed the computer industry. It was based on a multitasking operating system, rivaled the graphics power of some workstations and was affordable enough for home users. Unfortunately, Commodore struggled to maintain Amiga's lead, and through a number of bizarre business decisions (refusing to license the Amiga design to Sun), went bankrupt. Read about the history of the Commodore Amiga at Low End Mac.
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RE[3]: I miss my Amiga 1200
by twenex on Sun 3rd Sep 2006 14:32
in reply to "RE[2]: I miss my Amiga 1200"
Member since:2006-04-21
As much as I love Linux, it's not nearly as much fun to use as AmigaOS, and not only because there are next to no native games. A lot of things that Linux creates umpteen solutions to please a dozen different types of user for, Commode (or to be more accurate, Amiga Inc. and Metacomco) just got Right First Time.
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2005-11-11
"Hold on to that A1200. It may be that a new PowerPC accelerator in development will plug into the trapdoor slot on the bottom to add AmigaOS 4 capabilities to your classic Amiga."
By the time the A1200s came out, I had already written the Amigas off as a dying race. I bought a 486/33 with 4MB of ram which was a whole lot more horsepower than my A500 had, yet in many ways it was an inferior machine, except for both hardware software support. Those two being critical for what I wanted - a computer to play games, call bulletin boards, listen to music (MODs), learn hardware, etc etc..
Okay in my book the A1200 isn't really a classic Amiga. The classics were the A1000, A500 and A2000. Okay it's all ancient computer history now anyway.
People who never used Amigas before PCs really missed out. Well, with WinNT/2K/XP,Linux,BSDs, etc PCs now have better OS's than AmigaDOS 1.3 was, certainly. I booted WinUAE recently into 1.2/1.3 and ghads... it was ugly! but for the time it was bleeding edge stuff.