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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: Pyromania on October 25, 2007, 03:30:17 AM
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http://youtube.com/watch?v=VWJj8pAUu5k
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugatti_Veyron
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It's not right to compare the Amiga to that car. The Amiga was never the fastest computer at any point in history, nor did it at any point in time have the best graphic capability. The amiga simply had a giant bang for the buck ratio that the average man had a chance of owning. I'd say the Amiga is more like a tricked out Honda Prelude from the 80s.
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But the Amiga sure felt like a Bugatti Veyron when compared to Windows.
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Based on the hair styles of our favorite Amiga and Commodore engineers, I'd say the Amiga is more like the Trans Am (with t-bar, of course) of computers. Supporting evidence: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Haynie/ and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KITT/. You can easily substitute "Amiga" for "KITT" in the following cost analysis:
[The Amiga]'s total production cost was estimated at $11,400,000 in 1982. (This was [the Amiga]'s total construction cost as [it] was first built in 1982. This equals $24,382,861 in 2006 dollars. However, due to inflation and material costs $53,299,730 would be needed in 2006 to purchase the material used in 1982). The cost of subsequent equipment improvements and the installation of additional features since [its] activation have not been factored.
Trev
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I've said it elsewhere: if the Amiga was a car, it'd be lying on the ground in a traffic median, in disparate rusty pieces while five mechanics (all of whom claim to own the heaps of parts, its legacy, the car's name, owner's manual, etc. etc.) had a fistfight over who everything belonged to.
Meanwhile ten or twenty people standing around this disaster are yelling at people tooling by on their way to work, out for a pleasure drive, or whatever that when this car is finally rebuilt, everyone will want to own one.
The sad reality is that what this crowd of onlookers don't understand is that the pieces, when put together, will build a Trabant.
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If Amiga were a car....
http://www.noosalongboards.com/images/woody/old_woody_chris_400.jpg
I love those old "woodys".
Plaz
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The car I'd equated the Amiga to over the years was the Lotus Esprit Turbo - lightweight and elegant engineering, but could keep up (and sometimes surpass) the "big boys" with their brute-force V8s. The modern equivalents would be the Lancer EVO, the WRX STi, and the S2000 (if there were still an Amiga computer).
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What if the Amiga was a car?
.. it was hit by a freight train at a junction and moved to cargraveyard?
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I would like to think of the Amiga being the Ford Taurus SHO.
The engine was amazing for its time of release...
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I would like to think if the Amiga was a car, it would be something of a cross between a Tucker & a Citroën DS21. :idea:
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@SyrTran
I would compare the Amiga to a lightweight sportscar also. The perfect comparison is the RX-7...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RX-7
The Wankel engine has no pistons and is considered my many as fragile, unreliable, and short lived, which in some ways it is, yet it is very simple and is used in endurance racing. The engine is under respected, at least here in the states, because of it's small size (l.3 liters=80c.i.), unusual geometry, and foreign design. The engine was designed in Germany, tested all over the world including much in the U.S. and refined in Japan. The body of the car was designed at a California university by an American of Chinese ancestry. The handling and breaking are better than almost all new sportscars under $100,000 and where the 7 really shines. Although not overpowered, I have beaten a 454 Chevelle SS with cowl hood and a fox body Mustang with a Procharger supercharger with just bolt-ons (me) on my stock turbocharged 7 from a roll. V8's still have higher horsepower potential than the little Wankel engine but the 7 is still very potent helped by the 7 weighing about 2800 pounds stock. The best part is the whole package together makes one of the funnest cars ever to drive.
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maybe like this, Amica (http://img86.imageshack.us/my.php?image=b3f5fe539d9ad7f5f5b9844te1.jpg)
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What if the Amiga was a car?
... it would still run, but you would be scared as hell that'll break down be cause there is no support what so ever from the supplier. So tracking down spare parts will be very hard. But at least your are unique :-)
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http://www.huuto.net/fi/showitem.php3?itemid=64289200
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...it would be a clown car, coughing and spluttering, jerking its' way into the spotlight before backfiring and falling to pieces.
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NEW MEXICO MARIJUANA DISPENSARY (http://newmexico.dispensaries.org/)
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I don't like Amiga to Car comparisons, becouse I don't have a drivers licence! ;-)
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It would be a Delorean.
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Amiga - Car comparison...
Easy...
Amiga = Austin/Rover Mini
Overall an old design, small, light weight, rusty in the usual places, very often underestimated, accompanied by remarks like 'Oh you don't see those out often', but with a little love and attention can surprise even the big boys! But most of all - FUN TO DRIVE!!!
Also, nearly forgot... accompanied by an army of zealous fans!!!
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@B00tDisk: Ha Ha! I think you got it spot-on, apart from the Trabant - it'd have been more like an Escort XR-3i! :lol:
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I would compare the Amiga to a lightweight sportscar also. The perfect comparison is the RX-7...
Or the Honda CRX. Damn fun to drive and came in several models. I sold my CRX-HF (52 MPG highway) 600 miles short of 350K miles on it, didn't burn a drop of oil. Last I talked to the guy I sold it to, resold it and saw it about a year ago.
Talked to others who owned the Si model, those things were very fast for such a low cost car. Honda recently showed off CR-Z, Remix (http://www.autoblog.com/2006/11/29/la-auto-show-honda-re-re-remix-concept/). Hopefully Honda will go ahead and produce Remix, love to have modernized CRX again. If not, FCX is do out in 12 months.
Dammy
It's the Spirit, not the logo!
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Toyota Corolla XRS.
Well built, refined, reliable, and did it's job while still offering a bit of pep.
It was also a tad utilitarian, had a murky toy image, and the marketing was rubbish.
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The Lamborghini Countach of course! (http://www.concept-car.nl/mediatheek/achtergronden/1024x768/Lamborghini%20Countach%20Quattrovalvole%201024x768.jpg)
Simply because it's just such a damn cool car! :-P
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Pyromania wrote:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=VWJj8pAUu5k
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugatti_Veyron
Most impressive---reminds me of the movie where the TGV breaks the train speed record at, oh, 574 km/h or something.
However, if the Amiga were a Veyron, then just when we're about to reach maximum speed the engine will all of a sudden stop running, causing massive panic on behalf of the driver to avoid an impending and possibly very lethal crash. The dashboard lights will start blinking in a slow pattern, indicating a Veyron Meditation, caused by an access to an uneven speed.
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...It would have to be a car with a main engine and other engines for other tasks, especially one for the 4 channel horn.
The station wagon model would be made out of real metal, all put together with Robertson screws instead of rivets...for modularity.
You'd have room in the trunk slots for a PCHonda or a MacNissan.
The car wouldn't stop at traffic lights unless it needed to meditate.
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Mil. Spec? (http://www.chillisauce.co.uk/images/1401-1500/1453.jpg) :devildance:
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If the Amiga were a car, it would stall out every time it hit a pot hole, unless it was running netbsd, and then it would recover quite nicely.
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Amiga is sadly far from a Veyron. A Veyron would be some sort of a £800,000 super PC with a million GFX cards.
Id compare an Amiga to something like a Caterham Super 7, old small but loads of power and is super fast round corners. Not to mention they both can be upgraded. Translated as stable and super quick loading times.
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Here we have it :P (http://www.old-computers.com/magazine/articles/10/amiga_fiat.jpg)
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you are all wrong it would be a VW bug. A cheap car everybody can afford. There are tons of after market add ons for the beatle. There are still people driving them years after they stoped making them. They are popular in germany. It's pretty obvious.
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guru-666 wrote:
you are all wrong it would be a VW bug. A cheap car everybody can afford. There are tons of after market add ons for the beatle. There are still people driving them years after they stoped making them. They are popular in germany. It's pretty obvious.
I have honestly been thinking the same myself..
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I agree with the Tucker.... Ahead of it's time, but run by a bunch of scam artists. ;-) And sadly beaten into the ground by the big boys.
BTW, that Bugatti..... one ugly car!
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It would be a Buick, don't laugh. Buick Grand National and the A3000 Tower would be the GNX version. No one knows what to make of this car during the 80's., but it's fast and could be change to super car with a few mods. The groups that use this car are just like the Amiga people, they never give up and on there sites, they show 7 seconds buicks and 200 mph ones that ESPN broadcast. One more thing it was done with V6 engine and auto tranny. They did the most with very little.
Mike
San Diego
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PCs are 10 ton SUVs that overheat when the airconditioning is turned on.
Macs are fancy sports cars that are all show and no go.
Amigas are pedal-powered gyrocopters flying above a world full of traffic jams.
Let everyone else worry about the rat race, let's just fly off and do our own thing.
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Hi,
This is my first post. I´ve checked this thread out because I´m a car fan also.
Amigas for me looks like Tuckers. They were fast, inovative, simple, beautiful and were ten years ahead of their time.
Tucker Motor company also went bankrupt and left lots of fans. Sounds quite familiar...
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Well I'm an Amigan who proudly drove around in the cursed/doomed Austin Allegro.
(http://i120.photobucket.com/albums/o164/Cyberstorm604e/Allegro7.jpg)
Prehaps there is a connection :lol:
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BTW, that Bugatti..... one ugly car!
Agree. Im more into this
(http://img.alibaba.com/photo/11275266/Pocher_Bugatti_Type_50T.jpg)
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Aye, now there's some class. ;-)