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Has there been a device like the Amiga since it came out? A device that was so far ahead of the competition, yet completely overwhelmed by that competition int
by kenjackson 9y ago
Has there been a device like the Amiga since it came out? A device that was so far ahead of the competition, yet completely overwhelmed by that competition into obsolescence?
- loop22 9y agoThe original iPhone?
- pjmlp 9y agoOnly for those that never had a Nokia 7710 on their hand.
- GoatHerderson 9y agoPerhaps the Atari ST for MIDI devices.
- spc476 9y agoThe SGI computers come to mind. Completely blew everything out of the water through the mid 90s, then couldn't compete once high end graphic cards were available for the PC.
- ZenoArrow 9y agoI'm an Amiga fan, but the X68000 was released 2 years after the A1000 and was definitely a step up in power. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X68000 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X68000 For comparison, here's the Amiga port of Super Street Fighter 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMNTcG4OvqE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMNTcG4OvqE Here's the X68000 version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYmQCbBpLTc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYmQCbBpLTc To be fair to the Amiga, there are fighting games with better graphics than the SSF2 port, but I'd say sacrifices were probably made to improve the gameplay speed.
- kenjackson 9y agoI can't believe I never heard of this computer. Very interesting though.
- mhd 9y agoEvery Unix workstation. The Acorn Archimedes. The PC Engine. The Newton.
- qubex 9y agoThe BeBox running BeOS in the mid-1990s.