With me it wasn't so simple.
I was given an A500 manual when I was a kid, before I had a computer. I would read that manual almost every day and study it.
I was a big fan of the Amiga in the 80's, but I always wanted a Commodore 64. Eventually I (or my entire family, rather) recieved a C64.
I became a huge fan of the 64, and knowing what it could do with 64K of RAM, laughed at IBM-PC's and Amiga's that had 1 Meg.
I remember hating how slow a
16MHz Windows machine with 1M was, and I remember thinking of how much more practicle a C64 often was.
Without thinking about all of the extra data that the graphics and sampled audio required, I remember putting crap on the Amiga in the early 90's because a 64K machine could do everything the miggy could do in only 64k (CRAP), Amiga software was bloated - or atleast that's the way I started to see it before I owned an Amiga.
I do remember C64 mags always putting crap on the '16 bit' machines however.
When I bought my Amiga, I only wanted it for games, the 64 was going to be for programming.
Then I started to become interested in programming for the Amiga, and realised how much more powerful it really is.
Over all, the Amiga is better, but there are still some things I like about the 64(such as hacky 6502 hardware baning code
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