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Where is the software? I think you just answered your own question about whether it is really an Amiga. If you really want to relive the Amiga glory days, isn'
by adrianmonk 9y ago
Where is the software?
I think you just answered your own question about whether it is really an Amiga. If you really want to relive the Amiga glory days, isn't that part of the experience?
When I bought my Microbiotics 8-Up! card from the local Amiga dealer, they rang my order up on an IBM PC that they used for accounting and inventory tracking and such. I asked if they couldn't do that on an Amiga, and they enthusiastically said they were looking forward to that "just as soon as the software is available".
- bartread 9y agoHaha - yeah, I think you nailed it there. Although in the early 90s I certainly never lacked the software I needed: programming, games, music making, word processing, bitmap graphics, vector drawing and CAD, ray tracing, fractals, basic utilities, even a bit of DTP. Picked up so much stuff from magazine cover disks back in the day (I was still at school so had very little cash). That being said, my requirements as a GCSE (and somewhat as an A-level) pupil are perhaps a bit different from what they are today. In some ways they were perhaps greater and more demanding, in others less.
- AstralStorm 9y agoThe software is in AmiNet. Accounting software existed even at the time. What did not exist is the business community - by going for the consumer media market, Commodore inadvertently alienated the more boring business customers.