What is the meaning of AMIGA..?

[skurk]

McVenco wrote:
Are you sure you're not talking about your woman? :lol:

Hehehummm no comment ;-)

[Varthall]

Amiga has still the best OS around, at least for my needs.

Varthall

[lorddef]

Something great created by the little people that got shat all over by big people.

[persia]

Amiga Machine Including Graphics Acceleration

[Anthomatic]

The Amiga, to me, is the most personal of personal computers. Everyone has their Amiga just the way they want it - and I don't just mean the Workbench backdrop. Hard drive partitions, drawers, directories, start-up sequences and menus are configured just the way you want them. It's a reflection of your own personality. I doubt there are any two Amiga sytems that are the same, unless they are "straight out of the box".

That's what I love - making an Amiga a part of you... and when it comes to playing around or doing some serious work, it's like pulling a chair up with an old buddy and just enjoying yourself!

Prob sounds a bit weird, but there you go! :-)

[Shamus_]

For me, it's more a collection of memories rather than a tangible set of reasons on why the Amiga was better than the competition.

Playing with an Action Replay on my A500 and learning about the guts of Amiga hardware. The game cheating and mod ripping was also fun. :-)

Getting "baggies" of the latest demos out of Europe complete with a hand-written letter from friends overseas.

Rushing to the newsagent to get the latest Amiga Format magazine complete with a free(!) coverdisk and later A.C.A.R. (Australian Commodore and Amiga Review). I still have 5 or 6 boxes of these things.

Being blown away when I saw the Odyssey demo by Alcatraz, something I still enjoy watching on my XBox.

Being totally blown away when I saw Spaceballs/State Of The Art.

Running SysInfo the day my spanking new 4000 arrived. Eric Schwartz animations. Nico Francois and the prolific amount of tools he wrote. Seeing the true power of DOpus. Many things.


I think alot of the good memories and experiences we have stem largely from the fact that computers back then were alot simpler and alot more fun because there was nothing to worry about except for the occasional bootblock virus. If only that were still the case.

*philosophical, wistful mode off but reserved for later use*

[Fester]

huronking wrote:
The Amiga to me is the decision I made to buy one in 1989
after making a chart with the strengths and weaknesses of the Amiga, PC, and Mac.

What he said. That's why my first home 'puter was an Amiga.

Fester

[Hodgkinson]

Amiga...
Some odd looking keyboard ...(A1200)... that I was given a few years ago ...(Perhaps '05)... , before finding out that it was a lot more than just a source of 25-pin D connectors ;-)

Even being brought up with PC's (I’m 17), I agree that Amigas, or more accurately the OS, is by far the most slickest and efficient OS that I have ever seen (Although it does miss the home comforts such as built in networking, decent image editor/music player built in, etc ... Mind you the ticker tape on the calc is quite nice...)

Amiga strikes me as something that I missed out on without ever knowing it existed.

Hodgkinson.

[Vlabguy1]

@ Hodgkinson..

Very interesting post ..and wll put :-)

[koaftder]

Hodgkinson wrote:
Amiga...
Some odd looking keyboard ...(A1200)... that I was given a few years ago ...(Perhaps '05)... , before finding out that it was a lot more than just a source of 25-pin D connectors ;-)

Even being brought up with PC's (I’m 17), I agree that Amigas, or more accurately the OS, is by far the most slickest and efficient OS that I have ever seen (Although it does miss the home comforts such as built in networking, decent image editor/music player built in, etc ... Mind you the ticker tape on the calc is quite nice...)

Amiga strikes me as something that I missed out on without ever knowing it existed.

Hodgkinson.

Out of curiosity, whats the chronological order of the machines you have moved from?

For me it was:
Vic 20-> c64-> Amiga 1000-> 386DX/25-> 133MHz Pentium-> 300MHz p2-> 1GHz athlon-> 2GHz Celeron-> 3Ghz p4

and thats from '85 to present. I'm curious because moving from the machines between the vic-20 and the 133MHz pentium was lots of fun and really exciting. THe programs I wrote would run way faster on each new machine, more colors, better resolutions, etc. BUt after the 300MHz p2, stuff just got evolutional progress and hasn't been all that exciting since.  

[AmigaEd]

BUt after the 300MHz p2, stuff just got evolutional progress and hasn't been all that exciting since.

SING IT, BROTHER!

At work I've been very bored since 1995!

[Opus]

Amiga was a family, out to create an awesome machine, and they succeeded!  I dunno about you, but reading the last days of the great C= and seeing video brings a tear to my eye.  It was too advanced for most people I think...it is still running, has a following and is built to mil spec  not many machines out there can claim that, and if there is, how many of those are there?  what should the new Amiga be?  did I go from rambling to dreaming?  She sure was awesome...........

[coldfish]

koaftder wrote:

Out of curiosity, whats the chronological order of the machines you have moved from?

For me it was:
Vic 20-> c64-> Amiga 1000-> 386DX/25-> 133MHz Pentium-> 300MHz p2-> 1GHz athlon-> 2GHz Celeron-> 3Ghz p4

and thats from '85 to present. I'm curious because moving from the machines between the vic-20 and the 133MHz pentium was lots of fun and really exciting. THe programs I wrote would run way faster on each new machine, more colors, better resolutions, etc. BUt after the 300MHz p2, stuff just got evolutional progress and hasn't been all that exciting since.  

Agree +1.

I guess thats where the nostalgia for the 80-90's comes from.  The hardware was interesting, evolving, pushing technology.  Sometimes there'd be a game or demo that would really push the hardware and force you to reassess your understanding of the machine's ability, (esp' true for C64 and A500 for me).

C64-> A500-> 386/sx-> AMDK6/350 & A1200/030-> Athlon2000-> Q6600.

Well, to me the Amiga is pretty much my first job.

Back in the early 90's, there had been nothing but Commodore computers in my life and the Amiga was the less popular machine destined to hackers and more technically minded people.

Before the Amiga I had the VIC-20 and the C64 but these were mostly entertainment machines even if I learned a lot of stuff relating to programming, electronics, binary stuff and logic, etc...

The Amiga was different. I was paid to use it and do stuff with it. It is with this machine that I gave the best of myself.

[ottomobiehl]

Wow, a nostalgia trip!

After being a C64 fan for many years I got my first Amiga in 1986 and it was an A1k. I had many fun hours playing Defender of the Crown (my first game) and, eventually, other Cinemaware games.

I had a friend who's aunt had an IBM clone and we used to play The Bards Tale on it all the time.  The shock they had when I first showed it (the Amiga version of the Bard's Tale) to them on the Amiga.  It looked and sounded so much better.

After picking up a second hand Amiga 500 in the early 90's the memories of early LucasArts adventures really come to mind.  Loom, Monkey Island 1 and 2, Indy and the Fate of Atlantis.  Also remember playing Populous a lot and Lemmings too.  I had tons of games but those stick out the most.  After a while games were coming out more for Wintel than they were for Amiga.  It's a shame too.

Amiga to me was a superior machine with superior OS in a time when Mac was black and white and Microsoft was command prompt or early Windows.  Other than the Atari ST Anything else was 8 bit.  The Amiga was, in other words, better.

I miss those day. :-(

[Hodgkinson]

Just to reply...
Taking into account both my and my Dads PC's...Approximate chronological order...

C= PET
Aquired a 4040 development kit at some point
C64 +4's (Atomic mission, blitz, etc)
200Mhz MMX (Dads first home PC)
233Mhz tower of my own
Dad and me got a DELL 400Mhz laptop each
Given a A1200 and TI99-4A at some point
233Mhz tower upgraded to 1Ghz tower...200Mhz MMX upgraded to a 1.8Ghz tower. Masses of other PC's given to us from 133Mhz to 1Ghz at various points.
Given a ZX Spectum +3, 2x ZX Specckys, a good A500, a faulty A500, another A1200, a A1200T (Now raided for parts to use in the original A1200...special reasons for this...), and a A1200 motherboard.

Btw, All the computers, execpt the PET and the 200Mhz MMX are second hand. The majority were given to us free of charge.

...So really the Amigas are the "new" computers in this house!

Hodgkinson.