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Valiant
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Happy 35th, Amiga! Posted on 23-Jul-2020 18:47:46
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| Just fired up the A1000...Happy 35th birthday, Amiga!
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Re: Happy 35th, Amiga! Posted on 23-Jul-2020 19:49:43
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| _________________ That'll Put Marzipan In Your Pie Plate, Bingo 💻 Pro-Amiga, 🌍 Pro-Globalism, 🍅 Pro-Vegan, 🛦 Pro-NATO & 🇪🇺 Pro-Joint EU Defense Intervention Initiative |
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Re: Happy 35th, Amiga! Posted on 23-Jul-2020 21:00:54
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Re: Happy 35th, Amiga! Posted on 23-Jul-2020 22:00:23
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| @amigang
Was a good start wasn't it? Shame there was no mass market for a productivity machine (i.e. not business computer) at the time and no marketing support to grow that market other than the sepia adverts and weird baby at the top of a futuristic mountain dwelling video advert!! Poor marketing but amazing machine! Last edited by BigD on 23-Jul-2020 at 11:12 PM.
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Re: Happy 35th, Amiga! Posted on 23-Jul-2020 22:38:42
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And a Merry Christmas to you, Valiant! | Come on, if you have a working A1000 and a nickname like Valiant, it's gotta be Christmas all year round
Best regards,
Niels
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Re: Happy 35th, Amiga! Posted on 23-Jul-2020 23:05:37
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Happy 35 beloved Amiga! _________________ No PowerPC, No Fun Make Amiga Great Again |
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Re: Happy 35th, Amiga! Posted on 24-Jul-2020 0:15:53
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Re: Happy 35th, Amiga! Posted on 24-Jul-2020 0:42:51
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| Wow I am 40 next month, so I am only 5 year's older than the Amiga. I am not sure which has aged the best! _________________ Amiga A1200, 3.1 ROMs, Blizzard 1230 MKIV 64MB & FPU, 4GB DoM SSD, Workbench 3.1 |
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Re: Happy 35th, Amiga! Posted on 24-Jul-2020 4:17:21
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| @thread
Did anyone have one of the really early ones? A friend of mine bought one in Nov. 1985, which is the earliest I've seen.
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Re: Happy 35th, Amiga! Posted on 24-Jul-2020 4:36:26
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I bought mine in February 1986. Still the most fun computing ever. |
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Re: Happy 35th, Amiga! Posted on 24-Jul-2020 8:25:18
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Re: Happy 35th, Amiga! Posted on 24-Jul-2020 16:09:41
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The A1000 was too expensive for our family. We started with the A500. Our son dominated its use after abandoning the Apple II for the color (and the workstations for the IBM at work when I provided child care).
The A1200 was when all 3 of us had things we wanted to do with the computer. The original Lemmings is the only computer game that ever got me interested enough to finish the thing. Was THE computer until kid was out on his own and my wife got an iMac. I bought an AmigaOne, but was out of the state/country so much for work it never got as much love as the A1200 (though the speed of the AmigaOne meant I wasn't going *back* either).
Happy Birthday. Hoping the pandemic doesn't snatch the next one from me, ggw _________________ ..effects of civilization upon...nature, the growing gap between what education was supposed to accomplish and what it consisted of, the national debt and...high taxes, the problem of the excess cost of medical care -- Philip Wylie, 1951 |
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Re: Happy 35th, Amiga! Posted on 24-Jul-2020 17:43:05
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| @Petah
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Re: Happy 35th, Amiga! Posted on 24-Jul-2020 21:02:11
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| @Valiant
New game controller arrived just in time to enjoy classic Amiga platformers on my WinUAE box. Nice present for both me and my "Amiga". I´m exactly one year older than Amiga, that one and only real one. |
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Re: Happy 35th, Amiga! Posted on 24-Jul-2020 22:03:06
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Strictly speaking that's a preview and not a review, but it's a great article. I read it back in 1985 and was filled with wonderment.
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Re: Happy 35th, Amiga! Posted on 24-Jul-2020 23:46:00
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| I have 2 A1000s - an NTSC and a PAL.
_________________ Amiga A1200, 3.1 ROMs, Blizzard 1230 MKIV 64MB & FPU, 4GB DoM SSD, Workbench 3.1 |
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Re: Happy 35th, Amiga! Posted on 25-Jul-2020 4:07:42
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| @A1200
Back in the day I really wanted a PAL Amiga. That extra 56 rows makes a difference.
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Re: Happy 35th, Amiga! Posted on 25-Jul-2020 10:40:57
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What other games / programs work better on a NTSC Amiga besides Marble Madness? Most games were optimised for PAL Amigas from what I can gather. _________________ "Art challenges technology. Technology inspires the art." John Lasseter, Co-Founder of Pixar Animation Studios |
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Re: Happy 35th, Amiga! Posted on 25-Jul-2020 16:21:49
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I'm not sure about games. I've always thought Workbench would look better in PAL, with the extra vertical resolution. Workbench in NTSC is ropey, with only 200 lines.
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Re: Happy 35th, Amiga! Posted on 28-Jul-2020 15:33:51
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bison wrote: @Nibunnoichi
Strictly speaking that's a preview and not a review, but it's a great article. I read it back in 1985 and was filled with wonderment.
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Thank you for the clarification on proper language use
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