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by timbit42 3y ago
I wouldn't be surprised if EA abandoned the Amiga more because Trip Hawkins left in 1991 than because developing houses were abandoning the Amiga. The largest number of Amiga games was in 1990 when it nearly tied with DOS, which was 4
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by timbit42 3y ago
Which distribution?
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by timbit42 3y ago
Which model wasn't the premier AGA model? The A4000? The A500 didn't have any fast RAM either. In fact, when you added the A501 RAM, that was slow RAM. So it doesn't surprise me the A1200 was the same.
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by timbit42 3y ago
Maybe in Europe. Not in North America. The article even discusses Amiga hard drive use.
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by timbit42 3y ago
Which computers?
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by timbit42 3y ago
Which computers?
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by timbit42 3y ago
Hmm. My notes suggest TOPS-10 inspired Data General's RDOS, which inspired CP/M.
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by timbit42 3y ago
The Amiga 1200 was certainly a gaming target and it was out for 2 years before they went bankrupt. There are quite a few AGA games for it.
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by timbit42 3y ago
By the time enough people had a 486 to play games, Amigas were faster than a 7 MHz 68000 and had more RAM as well. You are unfairly comparing a 1988 computer to a 1993 PC, you might as well be comparing C64 to a PS5. Apples and oranges. A 1
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by timbit42 3y ago
I'm familiar with baudot but teletypewriters aren't computers.
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by timbit42 3y ago
I don't see any computers mentioned in that article. I don't consider a tele-printer to be a computer.
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by timbit42 3y ago
It wasn't the Amiga 3000 that killed the Amiga. It was the fact that the Amiga 3000 didn't have AGA or AAA that killed the Amiga. Technically, it was the CD32 that killed Commodore but it was only the straw that broke the camel&#x
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by timbit42 3y ago
When Commodore died, Motorola's 680x0 series of CPUs were still competitive with Intel's x86, but Commodore would use the previous generation (or two) model to keep the price low. If you wanted the latest, fastest CPU, you had to
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by timbit42 3y ago
That's what happens when your R&D gets cut years before. Eventually you have nothing new.
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by timbit42 3y ago
You don't remember AGA? It could do those resolutions and all versions of the Amiga chipsets had blazing pixel writes. The article even mentions this. You obviously didn't read the article and weren't in the Amiga community.
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by timbit42 3y ago
The Amiga was special and magical. There was never a computer so far advanced than anything else on the market, that existed before, or since. It took the IBM PC many years to catch up to the Amiga's power and some of its abilities. Th
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by timbit42 3y ago
While the Amiga CPUs were likely slower than a 486, I don't see why the Amiga version would have had a fraction of digitized sounds and essentially no music when almost every other Amiga game had those in spades. It sounds like Dune 2
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by timbit42 3y ago
As someone who successively owned an Amiga 500, 2000HD and 3000T from the late 80's to the mid-90's, and saw that message, I never understood what they meant by it at the time Workbench 1.2 came out in 1988. Perhaps they were refe
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by timbit42 3y ago
Commodore had great engineers but terrible management. Jack Tramiel didn't even use computers until he got an iPad later in his life. Jack would have been just as successful if he had been selling bicycles. After Jack left, Irving Goul
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by timbit42 3y ago
Which computer systems used 5-bit characters?
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by timbit42 3y ago
The DEC PDP-8 is a mini computer but because it was so small and inexpensive, it was often used as a personal computer. Micro computers were also personal computers, especially in the beginning, so perhaps there is some conflation there.
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by timbit42 3y ago
> It's not "standardization" when only one model from one company is doing it. It is when that company is IBM and the model is their new platform that all of their future systems will be based on. They were a juggernaut ba
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by timbit42 3y ago
6-bit was common previously and then ASCII was 7-bit but that's an odd number so 8 made the most sense and it's a power of 2, which makes it even better than 6 which isn't.
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by timbit42 3y ago
BTC and any cryptocurrencies that are PoW. Ethereum is PoS and therefore more environmentally friendly, yes.
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by timbit42 3y ago
Did you mean to put a comma after 'wonder'?
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by timbit42 3y ago
I find "BlockTube" OK for blocking key words in video titles or channel names but I much prefer "Channel Blocker" for blocking channels. It puts an X in front of the channel name on each video. Clicking the X blocks the
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by timbit42 3y ago
Yes, but the ones I mentioned, and many others, were also all off the shelf components. Why was the IBM PC "ultimate" relative to them?
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by timbit42 3y ago
They have the third highest property taxes after New Jersey and Illinois. Connecticut, Texas, Vermont are next, so two nearby states, but Vermont and Connecticut are the states with the fourth and eighth highest taxes, when counting propert
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by timbit42 3y ago
Also, Larceny (R7RS, UTF-8, compiles to x86, x64, ARM, C).
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by timbit42 3y ago
What makes the design of the IBM PC ultimately self-sufficient relative to other early designs like the Apple II, MITS Altair 8800, TRS-80, etc?

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