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Happy Birthday, Amiga
Sebby writes "Today is the Amiga's 20th anniversary. Commodore officially introduced the Amiga 1000 with much fanfare at the Lincoln Center in New York on July 23, 1985. It was the most advanced computer of its day. The Amiga 1000 was originally conceived a few years earlier by a small California company called Amiga, Inc. and was financed by a group of Florida doctors looking to invest in a killer game machine."
I can only dream :-)
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Yes but how many could afford to have a Cray in their bedroom?
That's true. I was forced to share mine with my brothers, so we kept it in the living room next to the Atari 7800.
The Amiga always seemed to he the rich mans Commadore 64. I have no idea why but them little disks always seemed to be in the hands of rich kids where as us "normal" kids had tapes.
:)
Then again maybe that's just how I bitterly remember it because everyone with an Amiga had Lemmings and all I had was Flimbo's quest. Although it was quite impressive when it stopped working after an entire year of 12+ hours use a day..
I like muppets.
Seriously! Some of us were lucky to be able to have clay.
DeluxePaint! I'd kill to have an updated copy of DeluxePaint!
Back in 1992, the Preview Channel for at least some of the USA's cable was run on an Amiga, and I used to use my monitor to watch movies through its RCA ports.
One day, after an afternoon of gaming, I decided to watch a movie to take the edge off. Imagine my shock and horror as I switched off my Amiga 1000, switched to the composite input, and a Guru error was superimposed on top of the Preview Channel. In a moment that was both brief and endless, I thought I'd totally screwed up my computer, VCR, and monitor in one shot, even as I stared at the Amiga's power switch in the off position.
Nah, he meant Chinese. The Chinese love their clay!