Amiga rides again! :)

[Himself]

http://www.gamersdepot.com/interviews/amiga/001.htm

Now it's a cross platform gaming OS.

[ahartman]

Article not found.

Can you post the text or provide another link?

I think I'd actually buy another Amiga now, if for nothing else than nostalga!

[xortam]

Try again Andy. I was able to get it when Himself posted this and again just now. The article is a bit lengthy (and multi-page) for c&p. BTW, a bud of mine was a software developer of the Amiga.

[Chris B]

Ahh.. the memories

Makes me wish I still had my old A500.

[Nuno]

Those were the times... with a 512Kb memory add on and an external floppy drive.

Just a curiosity: Anyone remember AMOS basic?

[SteveC]

I only ever used an amiga once... to play Civilisation. (Well, I say 'once', but that game forced me to play it for like months...)

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Cheers,
Steve

"Life is what we make of it, yet most of us just fake"

[ahartman]

External floppy? Wasn't the floppy on the side of the A500? I always thought the 512K add on 'triangle' was one of the coolest looking upgrades ever.

Man, what a computer that was! I remember the 15" 1084S monitors that cost, what, $500? STEREO SOUND FROM A COMPUTER! Nothing will beat that! hehehe

[Himself]

Oddly, enough the PC is turning into an Amiga like design more and more as years go by. The hardware architecture of the XBox is rather Amiga like as well.

[ahartman]

Remember how revolutionary the Amiga was? Daughter chips to handle sound, graphics, etc. Now, it's exactly that way, except the daughter chips are all on their own cards.

Why did Commodore have to wreck the best computer out there?!?

I still remember the Amiga vs. Mac flame wars. IBM wasn't even in the discussion then...

[ahartman]

Still can't get to the article. I try to get to the main gamersdepot website and it can't be found either.

Is my browser lost?!?

[xortam]

Guess their website is a bit flaky. I just tried and IE5 couldn't find the site. I tried to ping it and it couldn't find the DNS entry "Unknown host".

[Le Bodge]

Hey, anyone want to buy my Amiga 4000?!

It's got a Hard Drive and a High Density Floppy!

<sigh> Sensible Soccer, Civilization, Settlers.....

:-)

Le B.

[Nuno]

The A500 had an internal floppy drive, but an external one was available at that time. Having df0: and df1: has kinda cool back in those days (Specially when games started coming in 8-12 floppy disks!)

[ahartman]

C'mon - who needed a 2nd disk drive when you could just create a RAM drive & go?!?

Didn't work so well with the 500, but with the 2000 and the 2.5M of ram, that's WAAAY more than you'd ever need... hehe