Common amiga knowledge that's wrong

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Common Knowledge: You can turn an Amiga off at any time

Why it's wrong: Only God knows if file handles are actually closed. While writes to disk are immediate, programs may not actually make the library call after you clikc on interface buttons.

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IMHO, the image 3D image quality of the voodoo 1 and 2 series was atrocious. Much preferred the output from the early ATI/nVidia boards even then. Matrox too, though 3D wasn't really their thing.

I miss Matrox.

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Really? What killed my interest in videogames was the failure of the dreamcast

SoulReaver for the win! Dreamcast was awesome. Still got mine, still fire it up from time to time.

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Actually most games did not have any HD installer even if it came on 10 floppies. The reason for this was because most games was not system friendly at all and had their own bootloader that bypassed amigaos afaik.

The a1200 and a4000 should have had a cdrom drive by default in my opinion. PC's that came out at that time all had cdrom.

I remember back in like 1993 getting a sound blaster pro and scsi single speed caddy CDROM drive for the 386 at the time and it was expensive as hell. There would have been no way to sell an a1200 when it came out for a reasonable price with a cdrom. Back then we were all pimping walkmans and rocking cassette tapes, cd players were for folks with money.

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A lot of this has to do with what era of the Amiga we spent most of our time in. In the early days, we didn't have harddrives and everything was on floppies. Back in the day, I never had a harddrive for my A1K, it was only until after 2003 untill I got my hands on a more capable amiga.

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WTF ??

Audio-CD-players were cheap, portables not (but you wouldn't need them for an PC)

CDTV was a bit overpriced, CD32 (released in 93) were cheap.
SCSI was never cheap.
CD-ROMs with bastardized IDE interface (like the early Mitsumis) were affordable, ordering and building them into an A1200CD in masses would have driven the prices down.

A naked A1200 (without HD) was 800DM, adding a CD as standard would still have kept the price below 1000DM, way lower than the A500 when it was introduced (1400DM afaik).

CDROM or CD-Players cheap in 93? No way dude. I couldn't afford that crap back then. I worked two months at taco bell to get my single speed CDROM/ sb pro combo. Thems were the days. Two years years earlier 1mb 32 pin sims cost $100 a piece. I like the hardware prices today.