Fabio RomeoThe Amiga was my dream computer that I was never able to have, and now I'm here pondering what emulators should I get. I really want to try this thing.
Tim Locke 🇨🇦♥🇺🇦🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@fabioromeu I think a lot of people were never able to have an Amiga. There were at least a dozen people I went to high school with who had a C64 but only myself and 1 other upgraded to an Amiga. Many got an IBM PC clone and one got an Atari ST instead. I worked a year between graduation and college and spent $999 in 1988 on an Amiga 500, A501 RAM expander and a 1084S monitor and used it in college.
@timlocke now that's interesting. I live in Brazil and lived there my whole life, so seeing magazines I always had this idea that this machine was pretty common to people out there - specially in North America.
Computers where pretty expensive down there, so we had to get by with one of many clones. My main computer for a long time was a MSX Expert that I used for gaming and doing school texts. Printing essays with a dot matrix printer made my parents scream with joy. 😅
@fabioromeu Amigas were more popular in Europe than NA, especially after the A500 came out.