Re:Show HN: Why is the Amiga so beloved in the demoscene? (2...
by kstrauser on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @02:37PM
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> That's an odd turn of phrase considering that both the Mac and the PC predate the Amiga.
Technically true. The PC definitely predates both, but the first Mac launched in 1984 and the first Amiga in 1985. They were very much contemporaries.
Re:Show HN: Why is the Amiga so beloved in the demoscene? (2...
by zozbot234 on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @02:35PM
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The Atari ST was even more reasonably priced, but of course it lacked the Amiga's custom hardware chipset so it was a lot more boring on the gaming and multimedia front.
Re:Show HN: Why is the Amiga so beloved in the demoscene? (2...
by pjmlp on Thursday December 07, 2023 @02:51AM
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And did not support properly colour on its first iterations.
Re:Show HN: Why is the Amiga so beloved in the demoscene? (2...
by sillywalk on Thursday December 07, 2023 @03:09PM
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> The Atari ST
I remember these commercials, because they were on a VHS recording I had of Back to the Future, along with a brief news clip of the only Soviet Shuttle flight.
Amiga 500 commercial (1988)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2KiNpqATUY
Atari 1040ST Computer Commercial 1988 With 1 Megabyte Of Memory!
Re:Show HN: Why is the Amiga so beloved in the demoscene? (2...
by leshokunin on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @01:26PM
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I'm referring to the I'm a Mac ads, which came much later.
That's an odd turn of phrase considering that both the Mac and the PC predate the Amiga.
If anything surely the Mac's Ridley Scott directed launch Super Bowl ad was the start of "Mac vs PC".
People loved the Amiga because it had a lot of modern features for the time and was reasonably priced. You're definitely right, it's the little computer that could.
The demo scene loved the Amiga because a lot of hardware features were left undocumented ready for you to discover and wow your friends with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfqw8nhUwA