Amiga Love ❤In the 1980s, Amiga heralded a new era of creativity for computing.
It wasn't even close.
Gen X-Wing@amigalove The X68000 was really cool too. There was just so little overlap of the two. I don’t remember hearing about it at all back then.
Too bad nobody at Sharp picked up the phone and did something with it. Imagine if they had joined forces.
Charlie Balogh@breadbin @amigalove I have an X68000 too and I love that thing, but even if I subtract JDM-ness of it, the Amiga is the better designed, more future-proof architecture, hands down, IMO. The X68000 is a typical sprite-blaster + tiled background layers Japanese-style arcade hardware turned up to 11, and put into a shape of a computer. Is it good at that? 110%. Is is still very cool? You bet. Does it come close to the Amiga in redefining what your home computer can do? No, IMO.
@breadbin @amigalove Or to put it another way - the X68k was much better at maximizing its initial potential, but then had nowhere to go. The Amiga in its initial form could do somewhat less, but left the future of opportunities wide open - which then Commodore butchered, badly, but that's another story. This is also true for the software stacks.
But my god, that black twin-tower design, brother... The last computer I just sat with and stared at this long was my first A1200, 25 years ago.
@chainq @amigalove The original Amiga design had so much potential as you say. Wish the A1200 would have been released earlier and with a more updated set of custom chips. Just wider/faster/more/chunky basically.
The Acorn is another system that was cool. Turns out the ARM CPU isn’t bad after all:)
Bruce Harry@amigalove A Step then a Leap