why do people still care about these pieces of junk? why do they have such a cult following?
why do people still care about these pieces of junk? why do they have such a cult following?
why do people still care about these pieces of junk? why do they have such a cult following?
autism + somewhat legitimate anti-american sentiment
>+ somewhat legitimate anti-american sentiment
why do they let americans live rent free in their heads
>American company
>Killer app was NTSC-only
Euro cope
gaymes and furr shit.
>gaymes and furr shit.
whats the correlation between amiga and furries?
it was a content creation platform. Having a PC was not a convenience back in the day, either you had work to do or you were truly dedicated to something.
>whats the correlation between amiga and furries?
Amiga is literally responsible for a whole generation of furries. Mostly by the hands of one man - Eric W. Schwartz
No man should have that much power.
It was literally the start of a young and emerging furry fandom being born in the digital world.
nostalgia and a return to a time when computing was something wonderful and soulful. you wouldnt get it zoomzoom
"a time when computing was something wonderful and soulful"
Whatever homosexual I can't jerk off to green text
Have you tried?
>not anime
I can;t
It was what the original Macintosh was SUPPOSED be but wasn't, and about a 1000 dollars cheaper.
> why
i'll break it down so your low iq brain can understand it clearly:
> first affordable computer to support genlock
> first affordable computer to support up to 4096 colours
> first affordable computer with (at the time) high quality digital audio (8-bit ~22khz)
> custom chips that did most of the work so the 68000 cpu could do other things while audio/video/disk access was happening
> adopted en masse by movie and television industry - continual use of amigas up until the mid 1990s
state of its competition in 1985:
> apple: 2 colours, no custom chips. beeper speaker. 68000 cpu responsible for drawing the screen, disk access and everything else - was slow as frick
> pc: 16 colour CGA, no custom chips, beeper speaker
amiga shit on everything and pc homosexuals and itoddlers still can't cope with the fact decades later.
>It was what the original Macintosh was SUPPOSED be but wasn't, and about a 1000 dollars cheaper.
revisionist history from itoddlers is hilarious.
And it got BTFO by PCs because it was designed around the assumption that 2D graphics on SDTV displays was all that would ever matter. Tight integration with custom hardware sacrifices flexibility for performance, but with Moore's law still in effect you could get performance just by waiting. Amiga died in 1993 when it failed to run Doom.
Massive inferiority complex of the oldschool cult infused with fresh contrarian blood.
>Paradigm shifting computing levels at competitive/consumer pricing back before Moore's Law was disproven.
Wow I wonder why people thought they were cool computers.
>Paradigm shifting
Meh, the Amiga's multimedia capabilities while impressive in their time were still too shitty to be anything more than a gaming/demo gimmick, and nothing else it did was all that special. Moore's Law certainly doesn't apply to a platform that was still rocking 68EC020s into the mid '90s...
the scene still exists because of it's media capabilities.
Of course, but that doesn't make it less of a gimmick that was too ahead of its time for its own good.
All home computers were eventually driven to extinction by IBM compatibles, except for Macs.
Amigas were used for music, graphics and video.
Amiga were atleast 2 decades ahead of everyone, but normalgays were moronic and didn't know how to handle it. So Apple swoops in and sells them on mediocrity while M$ & IBM take the other half
Normalgays in computing back then were mostly business users who valued expansion, storage and raw speed over specialized bing bing wahoo chipsets. Commode didn't figure that one out until it was way too late.
Nostalgia. I had one growing up and have fond memories of using it.
the BOOIIING! sound i can still hear in my dreams.
It's sound chip is pretty great.
> hoffman
cringe. i recall that guy got caught out ripping a lot of his samples from other musician's modules and tried to pass them off as his own. if you want to hear quality jungle by musicians that have some credibility, you should hunt down an amiga musician called Sheffra. a lot of people ripped his samples to use in their modules.
>i recall that guy got caught out ripping a lot of his samples from other musician's modules
I don't really see the pro-
>and tried to pass them off as his own.
okay, that is pretty homosexual. The least you can do is source your samples.
Great software for graphic design (Deluxe Paint), awesome trackers if you're into making music, plus there's the games. Nowadays I don't know of anyone who still owns one personally, however I know of two local TV/cable companies that still operate on the Amigas. Think it's one of them "if it works, don't touch it" kinda things. I wouldn't mind an Amiga personally, even an A500 would do it for me, but the prices have skyrocketed over the years to the point it's not really funny anymore.
>but the prices have skyrocketed over the years to the point it's not really funny anymore.
lol, I've just checked and holy shit
I bought the Amiga 600 I have in the attic for 10 cigarettes in the middle school
Did you go to middle school in prison?
sounds about right