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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: swoslover on October 14, 2012, 02:13:56 PM
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When would it be?
For me the late 90s were magical. Lots of exciting rumors and speculation (which unfortunately proved unfounded), still some commercial titles being released and magazines on the shelves.
You could also walk into Electronics Boutique and buy Amiga games, how I wish that were possible today.
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The day I bought my Amiga. A mildly rainy evening about 18:00+ (6 pm), ca 1989, I was sitting in the middle of an almost empty bus, with my parents several seats behind. I was holding my box in my knees and thinking about the amount of fun I'd have with it.
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1989 when I got my Amiga 1000. Except I would prefer to have more money and get ready to buy an Amiga 3000 with an RTG when they came out as well as get a 286 Bridgeboard and live in the best of both worlds.
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This would make a good episode of Quantum Leap. Maybe Sam could fix Commodore's "management problems" and make the computing world a better place.
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I'd probably go back to the A1000 release year, so that I could get an Amiga early on! Whilst still enjoying the prime of the 8-bit years. Anything after 1992 was just rather depressing in Amiga-terms!
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Back when I had my A4000 fully loaded with PicassoIV, sound card, Cable Internet and a huuuuuge 17" CRT monitor ;)
These were the days for me...
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1991-1992: no doubt the best time for the A500. :-)
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I'd go to April 1995 and try to ensure that Commodore UK won the bidding to buy the group.
Or I'd go back earlier and try to influence the designers to use standard parts to help make the Amigas cheaper and more easily upgradable e.g. PCI, standard SIMMs etc
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I'd go to April 1995 and try to ensure that Commodore UK won the bidding to buy the group.
Or I'd go back earlier and try to influence the designers to use standard parts to help make the Amigas cheaper and more easily upgradable e.g. PCI, standard SIMMs etc
Yup. Definitely something like that I had in mind, so we probably could still be buying new C= Amigas these days. Nothing would beat THAT future. And ofcourse some PC-compatible standards included, so Amiga could be still affordable for "the masses".
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1992 when I got my A1200. Good times and the first computer in our home.
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I miss walking into EB and looking at the Atari and Amigas with all their games on the wall.
Or reading and old game magazine and going through paragraph after paragraph saying,"but if you are lucky enough to own an Amiga, buy this for that instead of Mac or (shiver) PC".
It was a hopeful world back then, computers were actually interesting and we designed to be used by the user rather than use the user.
I wish we could roll back the clock and give Commodore the chance to better market them selves and to release that fabled Amiga that was supposed to come out with the triple A chip set and Mac and PC compatability.
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This would make a good episode of Quantum Leap. Maybe Sam could fix Commodore's "management problems" and make the computing world a better place.
Oh boy haha
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I love the Quantum Leap idea, but some of the best add on hardware was being developed, made and sold around the late 1990's and early 2000's
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This would make a good episode of Quantum Leap. Maybe Sam could fix Commodore's "management problems" and make the computing world a better place.
"Hello, I'm from the future. You've got to fire Mehdi Ali and Bill Syndes! The fate of the world is at stake! Please, listen to me!"
Yes, I've thought about how this conversation could be handled without sounding completely insane. No, I haven't come up with a good answer. :)
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I'd go back to 1993 when I got my A1200.
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I'd go back and use my knowledge of the future to get enough money to buy Commodore. I would reestablish their vertical market and rewrite history:
The CD32 would have become the dominant console until it was later replaced by the Amiga CD64.
Apple and Sony would be bankrupt by the mid 90s and nobody would have missed them...
Microsoft would sill be around and would still around providing their office suite and development tools for the Amiga platform...
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I'd go back and use my knowledge of the future to get enough money to buy Commodore. I would reestablish their vertical market and rewrite history:
The CD32 would have become the dominant console until it was later replaced by the Amiga CD64.
Apple and Sony would be bankrupt by the mid 90s and nobody would have missed them...
Microsoft would sill be around and would still around providing their office suite and development tools for the Amiga platform...
Yes that sounds cool if it could be done :-)
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I would go back to spring 1994 i have good memories playing Secret of monkey island, i had never tried a game like that before, it was almost like we were in a real adventure :)
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I'd go back and use my knowledge of the future to get enough money to buy Commodore. I would reestablish their vertical market and rewrite history
I wreckon Bill must have done something along these lines. ;)
It's almost a certainty that time machines will be available in the future, due to thousands, if not millions of years of human technological advancement. There must be many time travellers already among us, shaping the world for their own gain, or a particular gain or whatever political or religious groups are around in the future. Prove I'm wrong. :pint:
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I wreckon Bill must have done something along these lines. ;)
It's almost a certainty that time machines will be available in the future, due to thousands, if not millions of years of human technological advancement. There must be many time travellers already among us, shaping the world for their own gain, or a particular gain or whatever political or religious groups are around in the future. Prove I'm wrong. :pint:
The last 20 seconds of this clip (http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/147997/january-21-2008/huckabee-s-message?xrs=share_copy) concur.
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I'd probably go back to the A1000 release year, so that I could get an Amiga early on! Whilst still enjoying the prime of the 8-bit years. Anything after 1992 was just rather depressing in Amiga-terms!
I'd go back to '86 and buy commodore and kick out all the mgmt wankers that ruined the company and make sure the Amiga was the only focus for the company (no c64/65/128 distractions - still sell c64 but that is it!)!
I'd make sure CD-Rom support for a1000/a500/a1200 was implemented far earlier than it was - FFS why couldnt they see CD + Amiga = WIN!!!
I'd have also given AAA much higher priority much earlier on on not wasted all those years after the a1000 finding new ways to package the same HW that was basically released in '85!
Isnt hind sight a wonderful thing? :whack:
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I'd probably go back to 1984 and get an after school job washing dishes or something so that I could afford an A1000 right when it came out instead of having to wait until 1988 to get an A500.
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When would it be?
For me the late 90s were magical. Lots of exciting rumors and speculation (which unfortunately proved unfounded), still some commercial titles being released and magazines on the shelves.
You could also walk into Electronics Boutique and buy Amiga games, how I wish that were possible today.
Not the late 90s, not for me. The late 80s when my A500 was beating the pants off of my friends' PCs that cost twice as much and were barely scraping by with EGA and bleeps coming out of the speaker - that's what I'd prefer.
No, the mid to late 90s onward were sad times. Nothing rang true for an Amiga revival and every quarter that went by the Amiga slipped further and further behind technically. By 1996 there was no point in Paula this or dragging screens that. I knew every rumor that came down the pike was just that - a rumor, a never-would-be.
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I wouldn't go back. I have fond memories of the good old days, but nowadays I have a range of expanded Amiga-models with expansions I couldn't afford back then. Amiga hardware (both new and 2nd hand) is relatively expensive nowadays, but even so it is much more affordable than it was back then (counting in inflation and such).
The current Amiga, when it wouldn't have died as a mainstream machine, would more or less be like a current day pc, running some kind of Unix variant such as BSD or Linux. And that is already what we have.
So I look back with a warm, fuzzy feeling and enjoy the benefits of today.