Looking Back on 35 Years as an Amiga User

Re:Looking Back on 35 Years as an Amiga User by dep_b on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @09:25AM (#24918447)

I totally agree it's the biggest leap I've ever seen in a computer, I just thought everything would be getting better at the same rate for years. The only thing that happened was that PC CPU's got so fast you could have real time 3D graphics at a given point but things would not get dramatically better in terms of colors, resolution or sound anymore.

Especially given the fact most people came from an Apple II, bleep bloop 4 generous colors PC or Commodore 64 the difference was just day and night. Only Mac users had a similarly large improvement but it was still black and white and silent.

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Re:Looking Back on 35 Years as an Amiga User by snvzz on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:32AM (#24919129)

>Only Mac users had a similarly large improvement but it was still black and white and silent.

The Mac was a clever marketing feat.

The hardware could be summarized as 68000 + unaccelerated 1bit framebuffer. The OS had an easy to use GUI, but didn't even multitask at first, and had only clunky cooperative multitasking later.

But it sold well. Despite the ask price was insane for what it was.

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Re:Looking Back on 35 Years as an Amiga User by jfb on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:03AM (#24919557)

This isn't even remotely true. Well, the insane price part is, I guess. But speaking as someone who was around then, the Mac was impossibly advanced, compared to the C64, Apple II, IBM PC.

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Re:Looking Back on 35 Years as an Amiga User by snvzz on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @04:47PM (#24923951)

>But speaking as someone who was around then, the Mac was impossibly advanced, compared to the C64, Apple II, IBM PC.

In 1984? Against computers with CPUs that were trash next to 68000? Sure.

But then came the Amiga in 1985.

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Re:Looking Back on 35 Years as an Amiga User by ricardo81 on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @11:06AM (#24919593)

Agreed on leap

I went from a Commodore 16, Amstrad CPC 464 to Amiga 500. IIRC the Amiga was about £100 more than the CPC in the later eighties. I'm sure many a user could run off a list of their top 10 games. I still play Civ to this day, about the only game I play actually.

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Re:Looking Back on 35 Years as an Amiga User by icedchai on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @12:29PM (#24920750)

I went from an Apple IIc to an Amiga 500 and it was amazing. The first time I saw (and heard) Shadow of the Beast on that thing, it was unreal.

I also taught myself C on the Amiga, back when I was a teen. Fun times.

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Re:Looking Back on 35 Years as an Amiga User by ricardo81 on Wednesday October 28, 2020 @10:36PM (#24926491)

My C programming gene didn't kick in until I was in my 20s after learning web development and some scripting. I do remember wanting to, though.

Tried a little AMOS without much success

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