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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."
"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."
It sickens me when I hear that people only want to invest money in killer games. 1980s, 1990, 2000s, it's all the same violence, only the "FPSs" are of higher quality. I believe that children are not inherently evil and they will love any game that they are forced to play. Wo why not invest in nice and healthy games like Super Mario? Wouldn't you love Super Mario fully exploiting your hardware? I know I certainly would. And that is exactly the problem with Amiga. With all the colors unknown in the era they could have been the #1 platform on the kids marked and they wasted it trying to sell violence. And what do we have today? Terrorism. Do we have any good games? No. What is the bottom line? Exactly.
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Yeah, but did it run Windows?
I think you are wrong, my calculations clearly show that if the Amiga had had a 82.334235543546778566Mhz processor it would have been its ideal processor speed at introduction and ergo it would have not only dominated the computer industry, but also it would have accelerated the downfall of the Soviet empire.
My calculations also show that any other computer at exactly 79.32434324505460289503Mhz would have just run a lot faster.