A blast from the past!
It was Christmas of 1990 – my junior year of high school. This was a great Christmas for me. Being an avid computer user – my trusty Commodore 64 was used every day back then. If I wasn’t trying to save Skara Brae from Mangar the Dark, I was trying to make money supporting my NASA space station.
Well, that Christmas I received what is now my all-time favorite computer. The Commodore Amiga 500 – a true revolutionary leap in home computing at it times. While IBM PC’s where green screen DOS terminals along with Apple Mac’s grey scale graphic user interface, the Amiga boasted true 16-bit, 4096 color palette along with a whole whopping 1 megabyte of ram (who could ever use more?) and a 1.44 MB 3.5in floppy drive. The Amiga 500 was actually a second generation Amiga – the low end price conscience model compared to the much more expensive and expandable Amiga 2000. Commodore had something special and only with their classic inability to market and manage what they had – basically became one of the computer industry’s most popular “What could have been” topics of all time.
Well, I came across this - Amiga History
It is an interesting article about the fall of Commodore and my beloved Amiga.
This computer was so profound and popular, there is still a very large internet following with people still working on porting its truly great Operating System to modern hardware.
Check out Amiga.org if you want to learn more. By the way, I still have a very cool and working Amiga 2000. I just have to play Cinemaware’s Wings at least a few times a year.
Additional Links of Interest:
Bard's Tale
Project Space Station
Amiga!
Well, that Christmas I received what is now my all-time favorite computer. The Commodore Amiga 500 – a true revolutionary leap in home computing at it times. While IBM PC’s where green screen DOS terminals along with Apple Mac’s grey scale graphic user interface, the Amiga boasted true 16-bit, 4096 color palette along with a whole whopping 1 megabyte of ram (who could ever use more?) and a 1.44 MB 3.5in floppy drive. The Amiga 500 was actually a second generation Amiga – the low end price conscience model compared to the much more expensive and expandable Amiga 2000. Commodore had something special and only with their classic inability to market and manage what they had – basically became one of the computer industry’s most popular “What could have been” topics of all time.
Well, I came across this - Amiga History
It is an interesting article about the fall of Commodore and my beloved Amiga.
This computer was so profound and popular, there is still a very large internet following with people still working on porting its truly great Operating System to modern hardware.
Check out Amiga.org if you want to learn more. By the way, I still have a very cool and working Amiga 2000. I just have to play Cinemaware’s Wings at least a few times a year.
Additional Links of Interest:
Bard's Tale
Project Space Station
Amiga!
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