Commodore Amiga 30th Anniversary

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The Amiga turns 30—“Nobody had ever designed a personal computer this way”

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Journalism is prone to hyperbole, but on July 23, 1985 technology genuinely changed forever. At New York's Lincoln Center, as a full orchestra scored the evening and all its employees appeared in tuxedos, Commodore unveiled the work of its newly acquired Amiga subsidiary for the first time. The world finally saw a real Amiga 1000 and all its features. A baboon's face at 640x400 resolution felt life-changing, and icons like Blondie's Debbie Harry and Andy Warhol came onstage to demo state-of-the-art technology like a paint program.

http://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2015...d-ever-designed-a-personal-computer-this-way/
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So opens Ars Technica's eight part history of the Amiga, the most impressive consumer computer, decades ahead of its time, I've ever seen.


I'm going to plug Brian Bagnall who wrote "Commodore: A Company on the Edge" - an excellent read. He is also writing "Commodore: The Amiga Years" - you can support him/purchase here - https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1462758959/commodore-the-amiga-years-book/description

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To this day, I have never seen such an a advance in computing as the Amiga. ;)

One of the best home computers ever made IMOP! :) C64 also (cough):D
 
I was just saying that GUI was a Apple Macintosh invention.
But I think IBM had something similar in the 70`s. Far too late to research for me! :p

The Amiga was and still is to me the pinnacle of computing advancement.
Like the C64 the was huge leap in computing power.
Now its just drip feed! :mad:
 
itchy said:
I was just saying that GUI was a Apple Macintosh invention.
But I think IBM had something similar in the 70`s. Far too late to research for me! :p

The Amiga was and still is to me the pinnacle of computing advancement.
Like the C64 the was huge leap in computing power.
Now its just drip feed! :mad:
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Apple and indeed Bill both stole the idea from Xerox, Bill made no secret of this.
 
Amiga 500+ here, fond memories.

The game that stands out for me was 'It came from the desert', not that it was a great game but just really stands out for me for some reason. I think the giant ants and house fires gave my young mind issues.
 
Even today just seeing an Amiga brings all those memories flooding back. I can't fully put into words just how much happiness that machine brought me. I had an A500 which was later heavily upgraded with a GVP accelerator and lots of RAM and later upgraded to an A1200.

My faviourite games:
Populous I and II
Syndicate
Dungeon Master (I can still hear the sounds from the game in my head)
Hired Guns
Eye of The Beholder
Cannon Fodder
Shadow of The Beast
Gods
Alien Breed (so, so good!!!)
The Chaos Engine
Stunt Car Racer
Zool
Super Stardust
Xenon 2
IK+
F1 GP
...I'm sure more will come to me soon


Just listen to what music it was capable of. Astonishing for it's time and still good today.


 
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So much nostalgia! Had my Amiga500 when I was 4 and it kept me going until I got my first pc age 11. So many of those Amiga games were absolutely brilliant. Some of the original Amiga adverts popping up have been great to watch too :)
 
The staggering 4096, yes 4096 colours you could potentially use in Deluxe paint, using some wizardry called HAM mode :D

My constant ribbing of cousin, saying his ST was poo.
 
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