C64 was even cheaper, had GEOS, and could plug in to any tv or monitor you had around
No amiga to be sure, but the point is more at the previous poster marvelling about “colour”
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C64 was even cheaper, had GEOS, and could plug in to any tv or monitor you had around
No amiga to be sure, but the point is more at the previous poster marvelling about “colour”
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Stereo sound, 12 bit colour, hardware sprites, pre-emptive multitasking, flat memory model in 1985.
Emulated a mac faster than a mac so long as you had enough RAM- even with the base 68000 CPU.
Wow, you're the first person in the 41 years since the Amiga was announced that said something like that.
Lets set the stage, in 1985, we had the IBM PC and AT, commodore c64, apple II and a little computer called Macintosh .
When the Amiga was announced it had dedicated graphic chips that could handle 4096 colors, where as the ibm pc with a CGA card could handle 4, the EGA card 64. dedicated co-processors to offload the work that the cpu had to do (I think 3 separate co-processors for I/O, graphics and display. It also had stereo sound. Its hardware was revolutionary, not evolutionary.
The OS had preemptive multitasking, multiple windows, background tasks, dynamic memory allocation. No other consumer machine on the market had those features.
So tell me again why was it terrible?
Apple wasn't even a thing to me (or us, in the informal nerdy club) back then. I was doing nothing but 8080/5 assembler long before the Mac came out. C was still in the future as far as a hobbyist was concerned and the only other language we had access to was interpretive Basic (Barfo!) and since the Mac used a 68000 it would have required learning another completely different assembler language. And requiring the writing of a brand new assembler, although that would have been just as much fun as had writing the 808x assembler. Homebuilt S-100 Micros were as cheap as a hobby system could get and matched my very thin wallet much better.
Of course, if I could have afforded an Amiga, (or a Mac) then I would have had to make the change. And probably would have done so.
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Steve Adams
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Mac was not really a thing in our area either since nobody sold them and it was before the internet. The only person to have an Apple computer was my best friend growing up. His family was originally from Montreal and Calgary so they had stores up there that sold them.
We had a mix of Tandy, Commodore and then IBM/C systems. It wasn't until say 2006 when a local retailer got apple in stock here that they started to take off. They dropped their authorized reseller as they never made any money from sales of apple products.
So now it's all online, or drive 4 hours to the nearest reseller to buy Apple products.
We had a mix of Tandy, Commodore and then IBM/C systems. It wasn't until say 2006 when a local retailer got apple in stock here that they started to take off. They dropped their authorized reseller as they never made any money from sales of apple products.
So now it's all online, or drive 4 hours to the nearest reseller to buy Apple products.
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Mousse
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The lack of software is the only knock on the Amiga. It was years ahead of Macs and PCs of the time. It's like NeXTSTEP was way better than MacOS, WIndows and OS/2, but hardly anyone used it. NeXT also lacked software. It had only one program that kicked (_!_), Lotus Improv, but not many people had need for financial modeling in those days.