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Re:Show HN: Why is the Amiga so beloved in the demoscene? (2... by zozbot234 on Wednesday December 06, 2023 @02:35PM (#38548434)
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.
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Re:Show HN: Why is the Amiga so beloved in the demoscene? (2... by pjmlp on Thursday December 07, 2023 @02:51AM (#38553948)
And did not support properly colour on its first iterations.
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Re:Show HN: Why is the Amiga so beloved in the demoscene? (2... by sillywalk on Thursday December 07, 2023 @03:09PM (#38561181)
> 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!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdumpLhvqMU

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