Amiga was THE SHIT ! After my brother got his first C64 a few years earlier, he talked my mother into buying me one of those for my 11th birthday. It was my safespace during pretty rough teenage years and i used it until 1997. (Amige 500+ with 1MB of RAM and later another 1,5 MB RAM expansion).
Nothing came close to it, in terms of gaming and graphic fidelity almost throughout the whole decade.
We don't get the full context of the time from this video. The PC was stuck in a single tasking text only dos environment, and the Mac had a similar interface, but only in monochrome, and it didn't multitask either.
I had an A1000, A2000 (with a 25mhz 030 card) and an A3000 - loved the Amiga for its power back then. It's a pity that ultimately the mainstream software market never embraced it. My roomie had one and he pivoted to Windows, and a year later I pivoted to Mac. Still, great fondness for what could have been…
The Amiga was 10 years ahead of its time. I had an A500 and then an A4000. Unfortunately Commodore lost its momentum and the rest of the world caught up. Finally had to move to a Pentium 75 with Slackware Linux.
To be fair, a modern web browser does things that would have taken several programs to do back then.. and several things that just wouldn’t be possible at all.
I have that problem. I have to go back through before posting because my phone sucks at predictive text, swype really hasn't gotten any better since 2008.
The hardware crisis might force people to code well again. You can already see it in a lot of indie projects that makes a living on selling to potatoes (a lot of "cozy" games and rogue lites and rogue likes run on potatoes for this reason).
Potato-potato. It IS the same thing. The definition of "older hardware" always moves forward too.
We are not talking vintage computers here (OP is, but I am not), we are talking say "a 7 year old PC with what was then a mid-range graphic card" or "a three year old computer with a low-end graphic card".
The short answer is yes. The long answer is there are special optimized versions of DOOM that run on it and you should want an accelerator card for it. There are cards for it fast enough to run Quake 2.
Spent a TON of my childhood playing the game. Recently found an emulator for it and tried to recapture the magic. Definitely don’t have the time I used to!!
When I was young, and could play games for hours, but could never afford the hardware and software of the time. Now that I can afford them...I don't have the time, nor the inclination anymore. And when I try...my reflexes just SUCK.
Imagine thinking that telling someone that Xerox invented the mouse is "correct"?! Hah. Doug Engelbart would have been quite surprised to find out he had a job at Xerox he didn't know about.
You're right, he invented it while working at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), with collaboration from an engineer at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Xerox was the first company to implement the mouse into their (experimental prototype) computer, the Alto, in 1973. Xerox also had the first commercial computer mouse in their Star 8010 computer in 1981, years before Apple. Both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs learned of the computer mouse from Xerox PARC.
Still not quite right. Bill English (the engineer in question) would *later* go to work at Xerox Parc. But that was almost a decade *after* he helped Engelbart with the mouse.
Xerox Parc had *nothing* to do with the invention of the mouse. You know how I can say that so categorically? Xerox Parc was founded in 1970. The original mouse? Designed in 1963, built in 1964.
One could quibble about the first "commercial" computer with a mouse being the Alto but it's more or less right.
That is GOD machine! AMIGA FOREVER! Amiga was my first own PC and I still have it. Amiga 500 with 512kb memory expansion totalling 1MB. It still works perfectly! I opened it, expecting lots of dust but no, it looks like it came from factory! no dust at all and lacquer on board still shines. TIP DONT use scart on new TV because Amiga feeds +12v on Scart and it will burn most of TVs nowdays. Lucky my scart was broken and I googled how to fix it, there came that warning not to use SCART
Reminds me of the e-sport player who used to show up to NetHack in Sweden with a ball mouse way into the 00s just to show kids who thought buying $200 gaming mice would guarantee them victory.
Also, you could (not me, but the actual good players) supposedly do some special technique that spins the ball to turn very rapidly, that you can't do with an optical
Tolocamp
Amiga was THE SHIT ! After my brother got his first C64 a few years earlier, he talked my mother into buying me one of those for my 11th birthday. It was my safespace during pretty rough teenage years and i used it until 1997. (Amige 500+ with 1MB of RAM and later another 1,5 MB RAM expansion).
Nothing came close to it, in terms of gaming and graphic fidelity almost throughout the whole decade.
Dimr3ver
Nostalgia
Unanaxios
The obligatory double tap of the mouse on the desk to get the ball rolling!
VodkaReindeer
How is the image quality so good! Guy looks like he's in 2005.
technofiend
You can roll the dice on a clone, if you like: https://retrogames.biz/news/thea1200-announce/
TheMoonBnuuy
Only Amiga Makes It Possible
tachyx
ChickenSnizort
We don't get the full context of the time from this video. The PC was stuck in a single tasking text only dos environment, and the Mac had a similar interface, but only in monochrome, and it didn't multitask either.
EricPisch
I remember queuing for hours waiting for the store to open to pick up my Amiga 500 on launch day
Hollandia2025
I had an A1000, A2000 (with a 25mhz 030 card) and an A3000 - loved the Amiga for its power back then. It's a pity that ultimately the mainstream software market never embraced it. My roomie had one and he pivoted to Windows, and a year later I pivoted to Mac. Still, great fondness for what could have been…
LostDutchy
I want to live in that world and stay forever
mmontour
The Amiga was 10 years ahead of its time. I had an A500 and then an A4000. Unfortunately Commodore lost its momentum and the rest of the world caught up. Finally had to move to a Pentium 75 with Slackware Linux.
TK421isAFK
A few friends and I kept trying to push the Pentium 75 (and later the 150) to a 75 MHz FSB, but never succeeded. Somebody did it, though.
TheWeebleWobler
would you like to see my python?
Zapathasura
I don’t remember “WIMP” ever really catching on as a term. We just called it a GUI: Graphical User Interface.
GolbatChan
In the early days, they don't have terms for things. They have to make them up.
DocFunkenstein
WIMP is a type of GUI. Not all GUIs are WIMPs.
MuffinProof
I see what you did there
MrSilverDragon
I loved my Amigas. I started with a 500, moved to a 2500, and eventually got a 3000. Fantastic machines, I wish now I hadn't sold them.
stronomer
I had that the Amiga 1000, in 1987 I think.
m4uboy
my first computer was an amiga 500. so many great games on that thing
lavoleous
I believe it was actually Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointer.
Ankylosaur
steelundecided
Her work with HR Giger was awesome as well.
TK421isAFK
Who is that with Andy Warhol?
steelundecided
Debbie Harry lead singer of Blondie
TK421isAFK
Ah, thank you. I kind of recognized her, but couldn't place her name.
KuroFluff
Wow, running multiple things are once?! These days my 16GB of RAM just run Chrome.
Leaps
Maybe switch to a browser not made by the worlds biggest advertising company.
Somnophobe
To be fair, a modern web browser does things that would have taken several programs to do back then.. and several things that just wouldn’t be possible at all.
KuroFluff
at once* (Why do I always see the typos only after I post?)
nation543
I have that problem. I have to go back through before posting because my phone sucks at predictive text, swype really hasn't gotten any better since 2008.
bippityboppitybuttsex
With 640k you actually had to write your code efficiently... with 16GB, you can suck at memory management and it will still run
iamthemurray
Right, the limitations of the past is what made it so much better. They had to build around it. Now, it's as long as it runs 🤷
Beardedgeek72
The hardware crisis might force people to code well again. You can already see it in a lot of indie projects that makes a living on selling to potatoes (a lot of "cozy" games and rogue lites and rogue likes run on potatoes for this reason).
kazaamjt
This is not because of optimization, but because potato hardware has gotten a lot better.
Beardedgeek72
Potato-potato. It IS the same thing. The definition of "older hardware" always moves forward too.
We are not talking vintage computers here (OP is, but I am not), we are talking say "a 7 year old PC with what was then a mid-range graphic card" or "a three year old computer with a low-end graphic card".
LurkingSarcasm
You had to use the 1.2 bootdisk to play boulderdash
Beardedgeek72
I upgraded my A500 to 2MB RAM. And had an extra external floppy too. It was amazing.
willpostanything
can it run doom?
moofunk
The short answer is yes. The long answer is there are special optimized versions of DOOM that run on it and you should want an accelerator card for it. There are cards for it fast enough to run Quake 2.
willpostanything
yeah, graphic accelerator and best pair with my Cyric processor,
RowanUnderwood
donottouchdonut
That was the year and month I was born.
TK421isAFK
Where the hell did you get that picture of F1NN5TER?
ADHDinkubus
Is that a McPoyle?
jolem53
The dude on the left is wearing a woman’s shirt
RuNacken
The 80s were a lawless time
ancalime
The woman on the right could do with a shave
kirmokum
Paradox still uses an amiga for music production and live performances.
https://www.instagram.com/devparadox
CovfefeShop
A whole lot of other jungle producers as well
Check out Pete Cannon, Kid Lib, 12bit Jungle Out There, Phineas II
Vellax
Eh, it'll never take off.
majortool
- Xerox
cryborg
m4uboy
welluhwhatdoyouwantmetosay
I played that game so much, I could remember the town maze, and quickly get to the point I wanted.
jtrbug101
Spent a TON of my childhood playing the game. Recently found an emulator for it and tried to recapture the magic. Definitely don’t have the time I used to!!
Keru
I can very much recommend the Bard's Tale remaster that's on Steam, it has a bunch of nice qol updates to it.
friendsofsandwiches
When I was young, and could play games for hours, but could never afford the hardware and software of the time.
Now that I can afford them...I don't have the time, nor the inclination anymore.
And when I try...my reflexes just SUCK.
majortool
No one will ever buy a mouse. -Xerox (inventor of the mouse)
TK421isAFK
Apple fanboys get really annoyed when you correct them after they regurgitate the bullshit notion that Apple/Macintosh invented the mouse.
donpat
Imagine thinking that telling someone that Xerox invented the mouse is "correct"?! Hah. Doug Engelbart would have been quite surprised to find out he had a job at Xerox he didn't know about.
TK421isAFK
You're right, he invented it while working at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), with collaboration from an engineer at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC). Xerox was the first company to implement the mouse into their (experimental prototype) computer, the Alto, in 1973. Xerox also had the first commercial computer mouse in their Star 8010 computer in 1981, years before Apple. Both Bill Gates and Steve Jobs learned of the computer mouse from Xerox PARC.
donpat
Still not quite right. Bill English (the engineer in question) would *later* go to work at Xerox Parc. But that was almost a decade *after* he helped Engelbart with the mouse.
Xerox Parc had *nothing* to do with the invention of the mouse. You know how I can say that so categorically? Xerox Parc was founded in 1970. The original mouse? Designed in 1963, built in 1964.
One could quibble about the first "commercial" computer with a mouse being the Alto but it's more or less right.
Hippopotamuswhale
That is GOD machine! AMIGA FOREVER! Amiga was my first own PC and I still have it. Amiga 500 with 512kb memory expansion totalling 1MB. It still works perfectly! I opened it, expecting lots of dust but no, it looks like it came from factory! no dust at all and lacquer on board still shines. TIP DONT use scart on new TV because Amiga feeds +12v on Scart and it will burn most of TVs nowdays. Lucky my scart was broken and I googled how to fix it, there came that warning not to use SCART
SaturnineCult
Lot of the old tv's had disconnected RGB pins in the scart input, so most people used composite video output from A520 tv modulator.
TK421isAFK
That's just pin 8. It's used as a wake up signal for TVs and monitors in sleep mode, and sometimes used to switch aspect ratio.
YouRadicalizedMe
Interesting
m4uboy
the BEST games. those cinemaware titles! /gallery/whos-old-enough-to-love-them-some-cinemaware-qc5hT
JustTwoWords
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4208140/Defender_of_the_Crown_The_Legend_Returns/
m4uboy
oh hell yeah
MolotovDodgeball
LOVED Cinemaware. Also anything Psygnosis or Sierra quests...
m4uboy
obliterator!
BIC777
Still remember the old field guide to cleaning mouse balls.
Justboredtobehere
Step 1. Tie their legs.
Somnophobe
Step one: catch a mouse with dirty balls.
straha242
Beardedgeek72
Reminds me of the e-sport player who used to show up to NetHack in Sweden with a ball mouse way into the 00s just to show kids who thought buying $200 gaming mice would guarantee them victory.
straha242
Also, you could (not me, but the actual good players) supposedly do some special technique that spins the ball to turn very rapidly, that you can't do with an optical