The Commdore Amiga - Why was it so Special?!

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 It was ahead of its time. Don’t forget PC’s of the time period were no where near to doing what Commodore were releasing hardware wise. The Amiga had a custom chipset which produced Sound and Graphics. It can multi-task. Okay it wasn’t PC compatible so therefore you couldn’t run things like WordPerfect or Lotus 1-2-3 etc… But things like games and the Demo Scene started because of this system.

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Of course you could run WordPerfect on it if you wanted.

I’m guessing with emulation?

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Interesting. Looks like it was released in 1987. I’m guessing the biggest problem was down to floppy disks and formatting for transferring saved documents.