Amiga - It Outlived Them All...

[Franko]

Been wandering round the net looking to see which other old home computers still hold as much feeling and meaning to people as the Amiga does. To be honest apart from the C64 and the odd Atari sites most seem to be long forgotten and the sites last posted on years ago...

I was going to put together a wee musical video that kind of shows how so many of these old home computers (not consoles) have been and gone over the years and now seem to have faded from most folks memories, while the Amiga still goes on...

With new hardware and new systems still being developed for the Amiga in 2011 and lively debates still going strong on the forums and new/ old users coming back what seems like every day to the Amiga scene, I've come up with the list below of some of the home computers that I can remember (I'm sure there were lots more) that seem to have faded into obscurity...

Can anyone recall any others that the Amiga has outlived to add to this wee list and that I can include in this wee video project...

Oric 1 1983
Oric Atmos 1983
ZX 80 1980
ZX 81 1981
ZX Spectrum 1982
ZX Spectrum+ 1984
ZX Spectrum 128 1985
Sinclair QL 1984
Dragon 32 1982
BBC Micro 1981
Amstrad CPC 1984
Atari Falcon 1992
Atari ST 1985
Atari Mega STE 1991
Atari 400/800 1979
Atari 1200 XL 1982
Atari 65/130 XE 1985

[Khephren]

The Speccy and ST range still have a lot of life in them, Speccy with games/demo's and the ST still gets some nice hardware updates.

you can add the Texas Ti99 to that list as well. We had one in our house, it died a death pretty quickly, replaced with a dead flesh speccy.

and the 'super spectrum' the sam coupe.

and lastly, all the Psion handhelds (sadly).

[Hattig]

The CPC is still going strong, new games and demos appear in that scene all the time - although it's bigger over in Europe than in the UK.

[giZmo350]

Yo Franko....
Why is everything WEE?
And, if everything is not WEE, what makes a WEE thing WEE?
WEE WEE-lly want to know!  :roflmao:
 
Add the wee Commodore 16 to the list! UGH!

[SysAdmin]

The Speccy and ST range still have a lot of life in them, Speccy with games/demo's and the ST still gets some nice hardware updates.

you can add the Texas Ti99 to that list as well. We had one in our house, it died a death pretty quickly, replaced with a dead flesh speccy.

and the 'super spectrum' the sam coupe.

and lastly, all the Psion handhelds (sadly).

Very true, ST makes a great door stop.


Just Kidding!:roflmao:

[Tempest]

Been wandering round the net looking to see which other old home computers still hold as much feeling and meaning to people as the Amiga does. To be honest apart from the C64 and the odd Atari sites most seem to be long forgotten and the sites last posted on years ago...

I was going to put together a wee musical video that kind of shows how so many of these old home computers (not consoles) have been and gone over the years and now seem to have faded from most folks memories, while the Amiga still goes on...

With new hardware and new systems still being developed for the Amiga in 2011 and lively debates still going strong on the forums and new/ old users coming back what seems like every day to the Amiga scene, I've come up with the list below of some of the home computers that I can remember (I'm sure there were lots more) that seem to have faded into obscurity...

Can anyone recall any others that the Amiga has outlived to add to this wee list and that I can include in this wee video project...

Oric 1 1983
Oric Atmos 1983
ZX 80 1980
ZX 81 1981
ZX Spectrum 1982
ZX Spectrum+ 1984
ZX Spectrum 128 1985
Sinclair QL 1984
Dragon 32 1982
BBC Micro 1981
Amstrad CPC 1984
Atari Falcon 1992
Atari ST 1985
Atari Mega STE 1991
Atari 400/800 1979
Atari 1200 XL 1982
Atari 65/130 XE 1985

I think for somebody who claims to have learned so much about the internet in just a few months you seem to be pretty ignorant.

There's loads of new hardware and/or software for the following systems:

ZX 81 1981
ZX Spectrum 1982
ZX Spectrum+ 1984
ZX Spectrum 128 1985
Amstrad CPC 1984
Atari 400/800 1979
Atari 1200 XL 1982
Atari 65/130 XE 1985

I don't know about the other systems because I don't follow them closely but I suspect they are also pretty much alive.

If you want links I can provide them, but since you know so much, you would have no problem finding them yourself.

[Franko]

Yo Franko....
Why is everything WEE?
And, if everything is not WEE, what makes a WEE thing WEE?
WEE WEE-lly want to know!  :roflmao:
 
Add the wee Commodore 16 to the list! UGH!

Yo Gizmo350, howz it gaun wee man...

Wee (and that means both of me) have a tendency to call wee thing wee just cos they are wee...

If thing were a wee bit wee'ir than wee then they would be called pokey instead of wee but if something is wee'ir than pokey then that would be classed as toaty which is as wee as you can get...

Seeing as how the C16 was just a wee bit longer lived than the Plus4 I'll add that to the list anyway...

[Franko]

I think for somebody who claims to have learned so much about the internet in just a few months you seem to be pretty ignorant.

SNIP

If you want links I can provide them, but since you know so much, you would have no problem finding them yourself.

Awe gawd, another arsole for me collection... :rolleyes:

PS: I won't even bother to tell you what you can do with your links, I'll leave that to your imagination which seems as dull as you...

[thedocbwarren]

Stated before but Speccy and Atari St is still very strong.  Atari 8bit as well.  I've even found coco users doing amazing things as well.  

Only retro that seems to be a bit lame is old Macintosh.  Apple crushes old systems so people move off them.

[orb85750]

What are some of the website forums for the Atari computers (not consoles) or others that have comparable traffic to Amiga.org?

[Franko]

What are some of the website forums for the Atari computers (not consoles) or others that have comparable traffic to Amiga.org?

None that I could find, that's why I would say the Amiga seems to have outlived them all...

[Tempest]

Awe gawd, another arsole for me collection... :rolleyes:

PS: I won't even bother to tell you what you can do with your links, I'll leave that to your imagination which seems as dull as you...

Those are your own words which you like to post over and over again on this forum and others.

[Franko]

Those are your own words which you like to post over and over again on this forum and others.

Thought I smelt you on MooBunny before...

[ferrellsl]

Franko, in case you haven't noticed, the Amiga is just as dead as all the other corpses you listed in your post.....no more, no less.  Your post implies that you believe that the Amiga is still "alive" and going strong.  If that's true, then you're more delusion than I thought.

[Tempest]

What are some of the website forums for the Atari computers (not consoles) or others that have comparable traffic to Amiga.org?

Just a few links to Atari 8bit forums and new hard/software:

http://www.atariage.com/
http://www.abbuc.de/
http://mega-hz.no-ip.com/Angebote/angebote.html
http://drac030.krap.pl/en-sparta-info.php
http://atariarea.krap.pl/sio2ide/
http://www.mr-atari.com/