http://technologizer.com/2010/07/23/amiga/
Pretty interesting read, makes me a bit nostalgic

The third Youtube demonstrates why Energy Star low radiation monitors were such a breakthrough.

Thanks - Interesting - Too bad Warhol had to ruin that picture of Debrah Harry ;-)

I now feel old.. thanks..

Teams up nicely with the linked article on 'The Greatest Error Messages Of All Time'.

I remember Amiga for one thing above all: the sound chip and its 4-channel MOD files. At that time I was limited to a 286 with its awful PC speaker, so you can imagine my astonishment when I listened to some Protracker music files ripped from Amiga games for the first time.
Listening to Flashback music (on the PC speaker there was no music) made me crazy....

Ah, so that's why.

I am in fact the proud owner of no less than two Guru Meditation T-shirts :-D

Not really. I feel more like playing Turrican II.

Memories... While there were plenty of good games before it for me gaming really matured on the Amiga. Eye of the Beholder, Dungeon Master, The Bards Tale, Dark Crypt, Civilization, Powermonger so many good games. I still remember the day I got my Amiga 500 and loaded up Xenon 2.

I still think commodore was as responsible for saving gaming from the crash as nintendo was. The C64 had less colours than the amstrad cpc and was more expensive than the speccy but it was better than any other computer on the market and by the time the Amiga rolled around, they made a genuinely superior sequel that shat from a great height over PCs of the era and the only real advantage that the atari st had was its admittedly badass paralellogram function keys
That site is great, I think I've just found the birthday present I was looking for for a nerd girl I know

Isn't the Commodore 64 still the best selling computer of all time? Either way, it's sales certainly helped revive the flagging market.

It wouldn't surprise me since it was a single static product whereas the amiga had 4-5 variants, macs have had numerous revisions and PCs are as endless as a finite system can get but since the C64 had more in common with a console than a computer, the only changes it really got over its lifespan were improved design of the preexisting components (later versions got better heatsinks and component layout, much like the 360 has over its lifespan)

I even got one of the sleeker 90s revisions that generally looked less dark and brown. I loved that bloody system. But yeah, you're right. It was more like a console in many ways. Only a console that had tape, proper floppy and cartridge games.