amiga

The Amiga 500 was eventually replaced by a new Amiga 1200.

The Amiga came with AmigaBasic, up until AmigaOS 2.x,, which was way more advanced than the C64 basic.

The Windows 3.0 product with a 386 was just hard to beat and Amiga couldn't keep up.

A friend at school picked up an Amiga 2000 and joined the multimedia production fun.

Many of the abstract concepts introduced by the Amiga have not been replicated since.

I remember when we upgraded the family computer from a (second-hand) Apple ][e to an (also second-hand) Amiga 500.

It came to me after getting an Amiga 500, playing games and then realising I could make my own games.

Thankfully, my dad was likewise impressed, and within a few months we received delivery of a shiny new Amiga 3000.

A few examples: Datatypes lets most newer Amiga programs load any type of file of a format that people have written datatype libraries for.

After my first machine, an Atari 800, I had an Amiga 500 and loved it.

Doom was the death knell for my Amiga days as well.

Wow, that's really something -- stars on hit TV show for better part of a decade and moves to Kansas to QA an Amiga product.

But don't mistake all the love letters people write for the Amiga as irrational pining for "the good ole days".

I got an Amiga 1000 with the 1020 5.25" floppy drive and PC-Transformer software to emulate DOS on it.

Assigns is one of my favorites: Amiga applications typically load libraries from "libs:".

Like the Amiga, it was a little half-baked and then ultimately unprofitable, but for a short time I remember thinking, "Wow, this kind of tracking could be the future.

Amiga had elements so modern that it almost lasted till the end of the 90's, except for cpu power and marketshare.

Last weekend I was at the Amiga's 30th Anniversary event at the Computer History Museum here in Mountain View.

Later on I got the Amax dongle and Mac 128 ROM chip to run Mac software on the Amiga.