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> It's the ancestor of "Mac vs PC". That's an odd turn of phrase considering that both the Mac and the PC predate the Amiga. If anything surely the Mac's Ridl
by Lio 3y ago
> It's the ancestor of "Mac vs PC".
That's an odd turn of phrase considering that both the Mac and the PC predate the Amiga.
If anything surely the Mac's Ridley Scott directed launch Super Bowl ad was the start of "Mac vs PC".
People loved the Amiga because it had a lot of modern features for the time and was reasonably priced. You're definitely right, it's the little computer that could.
The demo scene loved the Amiga because a lot of hardware features were left undocumented ready for you to discover and wow your friends with.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfqw8nhUwA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2zfqw8nhUwA
- tetrisgm 3y agoI'm referring to the I'm a Mac ads, which came much later.
- zozbot234 3y agoThe Atari ST was even more reasonably priced, but of course it lacked the Amiga's custom hardware chipset so it was a lot more boring on the gaming and multimedia front.
- pjmlp 3y agoAnd did not support properly colour on its first iterations.
- sillywalk 3y ago> The Atari ST I remember these commercials, because they were on a VHS recording I had of Back to the Future, along with a brief news clip of the only Soviet Shuttle flight. Amiga 500 commercial (1988) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2KiNpqATUY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f2KiNpqATUY Atari 1040ST Computer Commercial 1988 With 1 Megabyte Of Memory! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdumpLhvqMU https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdumpLhvqMU
- kstrauser 3y ago> That's an odd turn of phrase considering that both the Mac and the PC predate the Amiga. Technically true. The PC definitely predates both, but the first Mac launched in 1984 and the first Amiga in 1985. They were very much contemporaries.