Amiga 600: From the Amiga No One Wanted to Retro Favorite

Re:Amiga 600: From the Amiga No One Wanted to Retro Favorite by krige on Monday March 17, 2025 @02:20AM (#43385636)

Except the system was designed with a productivity display oriented RGB port that worked, and its main selling point was the hardware, not the games. My stock 1200 can output 1440x550 res and more, and it works just fine.

Deluxe Paint, tracker music, Video Toaster w/Lightwave, all Amiga achievements. And all systems were extremely good value for the dollar until late VGA era. Europe understood and appreciated that; US unfortunately had Commodore main branch, which was very self-sabotaging, to put it mlildly.

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Re:Amiga 600: From the Amiga No One Wanted to Retro Favorite by Dabbling_Dion on Monday March 17, 2025 @03:01AM (#43385843)

"Productivity oriented RGB display"...

I remember going through a TON of pirated SW to get useful PCB CAD programs on Amiga (being the graphic "beast" of the time) and wasted a ton on non-PC harware (basically everything from Sinclair QL to Atari ST lines and Amigas, from 500 to 1200) only to admit defeat years later and settle on plain old DOS PC and Tango.

Amiga was ATROCIOUS for everything besides gaming. Its graphics was great only on paper - until you had it on the desk and havign to use it daily.

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