[HN Gopher] My undying love for the painfully uncool Amiga
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My undying love for the painfully uncool Amiga
Author : franze
Score : 4 points
Date : 2024-04-26 22:28 UTC (32 minutes ago)
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| LeoPanthera wrote:
| The author, Dominik Diamond, was the presenter of the UK Channel
| 4's legendary 90s video games TV show "GamesMaster".
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GamesMaster
| rbanffy wrote:
| "Uncool"?! That thing was a 32-bit home computer with a GUI and a
| real multitasking operating system!
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| When it was released, it had some of the most sophisticated
| graphics of any personal computer twice its price. At that time,
| PCs had 286s and EGA graphics at best (and most had CGA, or the
| little better Tandy models).
| andrewstuart wrote:
| The Amiga was never uncool - it startled the entire industry with
| it unbelievable graphics and sound far, far ahead of the rest.
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| I had undying love for vintage computers for a long time and have
| accumulated so many of them I literally don't know how many I
| own. I bought them from eBay for a long time and never even
| opened the boxes. Thus my garage has lots of unopened boxes in it
| sent from eBay sellers with unknown vintage machines in them.
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| I have found however that my urge to collect them was very
| different to my desire to own them. I loved finding and buying
| them and never used any of my vintage machines except for I used
| one once.
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| I now plan to sell them all. Vintage machines need to be cared
| for, loved and recapped and I can't be bothered to do that.
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