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Re: Amiga hardware superiority
« on: December 01, 2010, 02:54:19 PM »
Of course... :)
 

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Re: Amiga hardware superiority
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2010, 03:33:41 PM »
I still say OF COURSE, but then I'm totally biased, ignorant, thick and proud of it... :)
 

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Re: Amiga hardware superiority
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2010, 03:45:53 PM »
At the end of the day it's not really about which machine had the better hardware specs, it's really about what the all those clever coders & programmers wrote for it, that made each machine what it was... :)
 

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Re: Amiga hardware superiority
« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2010, 03:52:55 PM »
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Hmmm, no... I think what is boils down to, is which one did you get for christmas when you were ten ;)


They didn't have home computers when I was 10... :(

(at 10 I got my first electronic keyboard an old Bontempi (i think) reed organ, the ruddy fan was louder than the music... :lol:)
 

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Re: Amiga hardware superiority
« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2010, 04:30:11 PM »
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Commodore was...well, Commodore.   What worked in the 1980s for them failed in the 1990s...and here we are.

Cheers!
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I agree with a lot of what you say in your post, but remember it's wasn't the lack of ideas and R&D that brought Commodore to it's knees, it was greed & downright theft by the likes of Mehdi Ali that ended Commodore... :(
 

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Re: Amiga hardware superiority
« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2010, 07:34:33 PM »
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My friend, I could not agree more.  :-)


You don't happen to know where the little turd is by any chance, it's so ruddy cold here I could do with building a bonfire with Mr Ali being guest of honour in the hot seat... :lol:
 

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Re: Amiga hardware superiority
« Reply #6 on: December 01, 2010, 07:50:45 PM »
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I wonder what Aros would run like on an upgraded Quadra 950?

As the Morphos guys know, Mac's are a dime a dozen, probably two dozen for 68k Macs.


Hmm... where do you buy your Macs from, I don't call £350 on ebay for this scabby old iMacG5 a dime a dozen... :)
 

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Re: Amiga hardware superiority
« Reply #7 on: December 02, 2010, 12:59:15 AM »
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I agree about Medhi, what a stupid c**t he was, but at £299 mail order in early 93 A1200 was a good product (the only bargain machine for sale). What was the final nail in the coffin though was from the idiot who put CD32 in production instead of the A1400 prototype machine completed in 93 (except AKIKO). Greedy US Gold/Ocean with crap coded gaes and then running to piracy ripe PC didn't hep Amiga

A1400 = 28mhz 68020, 2mb chip, 2mb fast, Akiko, AGA, CD-ROM but no zorro slots for £499. This would have cleaned up compared to £800-900 branded 80386DX 25mhz PCs in shops running jerk-o-vision Windows 3.1.

Also half price of 4000/030 but same performance and all in a smart Amiga 1000/3000 style slimline case and separate keyboard. Commodore incompetence strike 3.

(Strike 1= passing on Commodore LCD prototype, and 2= never using 128 colour 5x faster Amiga Ranger chipset completed by Jay Miner in 88)


I agree with you on the CD32, never saw the point in that machine, one of the few pieces of Commodore kit that I never bought.

Not sure though if any of the other prototypes would have seen the light of day though, too much dodgy dealings and fixing of the accounts books going on behind the scenes by certain shiesters by that time for anyone to have been able to save Commodore... :(
 

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Re: Amiga hardware superiority
« Reply #8 on: December 02, 2010, 01:18:54 AM »
Me eye's have gone I'm seeing double here...