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Posted September 10, 2019
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mystikmind2000: A few years later one of my friends started talking about his dads 'Amiga' ..... i said "what is an Amiga?" He said its like a continuation of the commodore 64.... of course everyone knows what a commodore 64 was, even if you never owned one, so i was very surprised i never heard of an Amiga?? (But as i found out years later, that was their business plan, develop a great product, not market it properly, then go out of business).
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karnak1: The Amiga computer had several versions (A500, A600 and A1200). Again, despite its popularity, the fact that it lacked an hard-drive (the strong point of IBM-PCs), that PCs had a VGA palette, and that sound cards began to appear, ultimately led to its downfall.

My historical recollections may be a bit blurred, so sorry for any blunders.
" My historical recollections may be a bit blurred, so sorry for any blunders." I subscribe to that remark! :)

I think a few more versions than that? The one i used i think was an Amiga 2000. It did come with a HDD port if you wanted a HDD... so i got a massive 20MB Hdd, and that was WAY more space than i could possibly dream of using - it had capacity of 8MB of Ram too! (OMG how things have changed).

The Amiga 2000 came with a fuckup design left mouse port, so when that inevitably broke, and i was unable to fix it, the computer went in the bin. Interestingly, the right mouse port was properly designed, just to show you they knew how to do it right but chose not too.

Later i owned an Amiga 1200 that came with a 40mb HDD.... that is the computer i used to play Centurion on.

Edit - The funny thing about the Amiga 1200, it is 'almost' a laptop computer, they sure missed that boat!! lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5dMqHqC4pM
Post edited September 10, 2019 by mystikmind2000
Posted September 10, 2019
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karnak1: The Amiga computer had several versions (A500, A600 and A1200). Again, despite its popularity, the fact that it lacked an hard-drive (the strong point of IBM-PCs), that PCs had a VGA palette, and that sound cards began to appear, ultimately led to its downfall.

My historical recollections may be a bit blurred, so sorry for any blunders.
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mystikmind2000: " My historical recollections may be a bit blurred, so sorry for any blunders." I subscribe to that remark! :)

I think a few more versions than that? The one i used i think was an Amiga 2000. It did come with a HDD port if you wanted a HDD... so i got a massive 20MB Hdd, and that was WAY more space than i could possibly dream of using - it had capacity of 8MB of Ram too! (OMG how things have changed).

The Amiga 2000 came with a fuckup design left mouse port, so when that inevitably broke, and i was unable to fix it, the computer went in the bin. Interestingly, the right mouse port was properly designed, just to show you they knew how to do it right but chose not too.

Later i owned an Amiga 1200 that came with a 40mb HDD.... that is the computer i used to play Centurion on.

Edit - The funny thing about the Amiga 1200, it is 'almost' a laptop computer, they sure missed that boat!! lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5dMqHqC4pM
My first Amiga experience came through an Amiga 600.
Hell of a machine!

Later a friend of mine got an A1200. But he had no hard drive. Sometimes we'd spend more time swapping disks than playing the games :(

Amiga was a great computer. Specially concerning music and sound effects. Unfortunately it had terrible 3D processing. For some years the PC only managed to beat the Amiga on flight simulators, 3d racing games and VGA adventure games. The Amiga excelled on everything else.

When 486 PCs arrived (with "Doom") no-one wanted an Amiga anymore.
Posted September 10, 2019
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mystikmind2000: " My historical recollections may be a bit blurred, so sorry for any blunders." I subscribe to that remark! :)

I think a few more versions than that? The one i used i think was an Amiga 2000. It did come with a HDD port if you wanted a HDD... so i got a massive 20MB Hdd, and that was WAY more space than i could possibly dream of using - it had capacity of 8MB of Ram too! (OMG how things have changed).

The Amiga 2000 came with a fuckup design left mouse port, so when that inevitably broke, and i was unable to fix it, the computer went in the bin. Interestingly, the right mouse port was properly designed, just to show you they knew how to do it right but chose not too.

Later i owned an Amiga 1200 that came with a 40mb HDD.... that is the computer i used to play Centurion on.

Edit - The funny thing about the Amiga 1200, it is 'almost' a laptop computer, they sure missed that boat!! lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5dMqHqC4pM
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karnak1: My first Amiga experience came through an Amiga 600.
Hell of a machine!

Later a friend of mine got an A1200. But he had no hard drive. Sometimes we'd spend more time swapping disks than playing the games :(

Amiga was a great computer. Specially concerning music and sound effects. Unfortunately it had terrible 3D processing. For some years the PC only managed to beat the Amiga on flight simulators, 3d racing games and VGA adventure games. The Amiga excelled on everything else.

When 486 PCs arrived (with "Doom") no-one wanted an Amiga anymore.
I had a bit of a gap between my Amiga and my first IBM machine. I dont remember my first IBM system, but i do remember my first third party graphics card i bought, it was an Intel 740.... that thing lasted me nearly 10 years and took every game i could throw at it..... the frame rates could get absurdly slow, but it would never give up, not like every other graphics card i have owned since then.... put too much load and they spit the dummy and crash, wah wah
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