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How did the Amiga compare to the other personal computers in 1985?
The Next CEO of Stack OverflowBooting an Amiga 1000 directly to the hard drive without Kickstart floppyHow did programs/patches stopping Amiga idle floppy drive noise work?How could Amiga computers play 14 bit sound?How did the Amiga 1000 WCS (write controlled store) for Kickstart work?How did the Amiga DCTV workWhat was exactly the Amiga Ranger?Was Amiga the last of the home retrocomputers sold?What is the relationship between Amiga audio and the MOD music file format?Why were 3D games on the Amiga not faster than on similar 16 bit systems like the Atari STWhen were other inexpensive computers able to recreate “The Amiga Juggler”?
The Amiga 1000 came out in July 1985. How did it compare to other personal computers of that time, for example the IBM PC, Macintosh and Atari ST?
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The Amiga 1000 came out in July 1985. How did it compare to other personal computers of that time, for example the IBM PC, Macintosh and Atari ST?
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The Amiga 1000 came out in July 1985. How did it compare to other personal computers of that time, for example the IBM PC, Macintosh and Atari ST?
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The Amiga 1000 came out in July 1985. How did it compare to other personal computers of that time, for example the IBM PC, Macintosh and Atari ST?
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It was like a cheaper yet color Macintosh with a command line interface available. Stereo sound, better graphics, multi-process -- everything but sustained, intelligent marketing. (Initial marketing was good, but it was like they spent all their marketing money up front and expected momentum to carry them from that point.) I'm writing from an American viewpoint -- other countries weren't stuck in a mindset limited to PC or Mac. I like to say it offered more in 1985 than Windows 95 would a decade later.
The Atari ST won the high end music market with its standard MIDI interface. Unlike the Mac and PC, it could compete with the Amiga on price.
PC and Mac had much better business software support, and other high end programs such as AutoCAD pretty much ignored the Amiga and ST.
Probably the most well-known high-end Amiga software/hardware product was the Video Toaster from NewTek in 1987. It needed an Amiga 2000, which was a PC-looking machine with bus slots. It was a very popular video rendering system, and the graphics for the first couple of seasons of Babylon Five were produced with the Video Toaster and Amiga.
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It was like a cheaper yet color Macintosh with a command line interface available. Stereo sound, better graphics, multi-process -- everything but sustained, intelligent marketing. (Initial marketing was good, but it was like they spent all their marketing money up front and expected momentum to carry them from that point.) I'm writing from an American viewpoint -- other countries weren't stuck in a mindset limited to PC or Mac. I like to say it offered more in 1985 than Windows 95 would a decade later.
The Atari ST won the high end music market with its standard MIDI interface. Unlike the Mac and PC, it could compete with the Amiga on price.
PC and Mac had much better business software support, and other high end programs such as AutoCAD pretty much ignored the Amiga and ST.
Probably the most well-known high-end Amiga software/hardware product was the Video Toaster from NewTek in 1987. It needed an Amiga 2000, which was a PC-looking machine with bus slots. It was a very popular video rendering system, and the graphics for the first couple of seasons of Babylon Five were produced with the Video Toaster and Amiga.
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It was like a cheaper yet color Macintosh with a command line interface available. Stereo sound, better graphics, multi-process -- everything but sustained, intelligent marketing. (Initial marketing was good, but it was like they spent all their marketing money up front and expected momentum to carry them from that point.) I'm writing from an American viewpoint -- other countries weren't stuck in a mindset limited to PC or Mac. I like to say it offered more in 1985 than Windows 95 would a decade later.
The Atari ST won the high end music market with its standard MIDI interface. Unlike the Mac and PC, it could compete with the Amiga on price.
PC and Mac had much better business software support, and other high end programs such as AutoCAD pretty much ignored the Amiga and ST.
Probably the most well-known high-end Amiga software/hardware product was the Video Toaster from NewTek in 1987. It needed an Amiga 2000, which was a PC-looking machine with bus slots. It was a very popular video rendering system, and the graphics for the first couple of seasons of Babylon Five were produced with the Video Toaster and Amiga.
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It was like a cheaper yet color Macintosh with a command line interface available. Stereo sound, better graphics, multi-process -- everything but sustained, intelligent marketing. (Initial marketing was good, but it was like they spent all their marketing money up front and expected momentum to carry them from that point.) I'm writing from an American viewpoint -- other countries weren't stuck in a mindset limited to PC or Mac. I like to say it offered more in 1985 than Windows 95 would a decade later.
The Atari ST won the high end music market with its standard MIDI interface. Unlike the Mac and PC, it could compete with the Amiga on price.
PC and Mac had much better business software support, and other high end programs such as AutoCAD pretty much ignored the Amiga and ST.
Probably the most well-known high-end Amiga software/hardware product was the Video Toaster from NewTek in 1987. It needed an Amiga 2000, which was a PC-looking machine with bus slots. It was a very popular video rendering system, and the graphics for the first couple of seasons of Babylon Five were produced with the Video Toaster and Amiga.
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It was like a cheaper yet color Macintosh with a command line interface available. Stereo sound, better graphics, multi-process -- everything but sustained, intelligent marketing. (Initial marketing was good, but it was like they spent all their marketing money up front and expected momentum to carry them from that point.) I'm writing from an American viewpoint -- other countries weren't stuck in a mindset limited to PC or Mac. I like to say it offered more in 1985 than Windows 95 would a decade later.
The Atari ST won the high end music market with its standard MIDI interface. Unlike the Mac and PC, it could compete with the Amiga on price.
PC and Mac had much better business software support, and other high end programs such as AutoCAD pretty much ignored the Amiga and ST.
Probably the most well-known high-end Amiga software/hardware product was the Video Toaster from NewTek in 1987. It needed an Amiga 2000, which was a PC-looking machine with bus slots. It was a very popular video rendering system, and the graphics for the first couple of seasons of Babylon Five were produced with the Video Toaster and Amiga.
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