Commodore Amiga

“It's easy to get started, as most games boot automatically from the floppy disk.”

“the Amiga was the last system that was simple enough that one person could reasonably hold the entire machine in their head”

“The Amiga distinguished itself by being easily genlockable to video and having a 4096 colour palette”

“everything seemed exciting, new, and with unlimited possibility”

“great machine but a) it cost too much at the start so failed to catch immediate fire”

“Lots of goddamn awesome computers fizzled out. The Amiga being a prime example.”

“Amiga was too tightly designed around its chips, which were too tightly designed around NTSC timings.”

“it didn’t have enough RAM to load the advertised features of AmigaBASIC and the speech synthesizer at the same time”

“cheers for the large number of hours I spent with my Amiga”

“thanks for introducing real computers to me, in the form of Amiga”

“without them getting me that computer, I don't know which direction I would've gone in.”

“I grew up with C64 and Amiga and I still hold it dear in my heart”

“It had, for quite a while, a better bang-for-the-buck appeal, hardware- and software-wise”

“always looked like something from ten years in the future”

“The Amiga had a superior and hardware and software combo, the total package was extremely good.”

“most 'modern' UI tools adhered to standards defined by the Amiga team for cmdline usage and scripting”

“Amiga was basically the poor man's UNIX when you couldn't afford to shell out somewhere between 10k and 100k”

“the Amigas, that had to preserve compatibility with what was, at that point, hardware getting less competitive”

“In all the years I used an Amiga, I don't think I ever had the machine crash”

“Even without having lived through it I could feel that thing was something else.”

“an amazing introduction to the possibilities of computing”

“the Amiga was so good it left quite some future machines in the dark too”

“the Amiga was the truly magical machine, where endless creative possibilities suddenly opened up”

“Retro hardware prices have been going up fairly significantly though, especially for Amiga stuff.”

“The Amiga's graphics were ahead of its time, but the tradeoffs they chose proved very unsuitable for video playback applications”

“Wasn't the Amiga essentially limited to interlaced video?”

“Amiga computers would have been better than the Apple ones, at a lower price”

“I remember being amazed at how sharp the Amiga Workbench looked when I upgraded from an old TV”

“You could even run a sophisticated shell, multitasked along with everything else.”

“The Amiga was a much more affordable art-making machine, so many artists made graphics ON the Amiga FOR the Amiga.”

“interlaced display and 6 bitplanes were a compromise to allow color graphics in 1985”

“the original sin of the Amiga was committed in the beginning, with planar graphics”

“This was where Amiga's special video modes could really shine.”

“It was a big hit and set a really high bar for expectations of what an inexpensive home computer could do.”

“Amigas were stuck on 68K chips and used a slower bus after Macs had moved on to the PPC.”

“The Amiga could run the Mac OS better than any Mac could, even with the same CPU because of the Amiga custom chips.”

“They didn't pull it off by making an OS that needed a boat load custom chips (Amiga)”

“All that shit was super slow, you were begging for +5Mhz or +25KB of cache.”

“There were video and multimedia applications at the time that could ONLY be tackled by an Amiga”

“captured my imagination (and at just the right age) like nothing else”