"Uncool"?! That thing was a 32-bit home computer with a GUI and a real multitasking operating system!<p>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).
The Amiga was never uncool - it startled the entire industry with it unbelievable graphics and sound far, far ahead of the rest.<p>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.<p>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.<p>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.
The author, Dominik Diamond, was the presenter of the UK Channel 4's legendary 90s video games TV show "GamesMaster". <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GamesMaster" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GamesMaster</a>
I remember the Amiga 500 being <i>extremely</i> cool in the UK, the essential gift for teens in xmas 89/90. So I'm curious about the context where for Dominik Diamond it was uncool.
Somewhat related: a few weeks ago the "Amigo" software sampler plugin was released and it has been a minor hit among music producers. It has nostalgic 8-bit graphics and it emulate's the Amiga's sound pretty well. If you're into music production, it might be worth checking out:<p><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT4V4dhef64" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sT4V4dhef64</a>
> Like the Spectrum before it, the Amiga allowed people who couldn’t afford a PC to play games on a computer. Then the PC killed it: microchips got cheaper, Amiga didn’t move fast enough, and it seemed to die really quickly.<p>TFA's author must be from a parallel world. I remember actual businessmen (friend's father and friends of him) having "PC"s at home. Monochrome piece of mediocre underperforming slow pieces of shit they were. 286 crap.<p>While us on our Amiga could run typesetting programs, edit videos (try <i>that</i> on a PC from back then), "digitize" audio samples (we had "digitizer" allowing to transform an analog audio source into digital files), run countless intros and demos and games as good as those in the arcades.<p>Games on the PC back then were pieces of turd written in BASIC.<p>> uncool<p>Yeah. But no. Not in this world. In this world the Commodore Amiga was one of the most badass, coolest, machine ever which was <i>half a fucking decade</i> ahead of its time. It was the coolest thing around and it deserves the scene and following it still enjoys.<p>P.S: I don't always flag submissions, but I do I do it about obvious pieces of trolling
I will always respect Amiga computers. When I went to college in the fall of 1989, I brought my beloved Apple IIc and 9" green screen. The day after moving in to the dorm, I discovered that one of my fellow students on the floor had an Amiga and I was absolutely floored by the color graphics and performance.