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[Anemos]

Today is the Amiga's 20th anniversary. Commodore officially introduced the Amiga 1000 with much fanfare at the Lincoln Center in New York on July 23, 1985. It was the most advanced computer of its day. The Amiga 1000 was originally conceived a few years earlier by a small California company called Amiga, Inc. and was financed by a group of Florida doctors looking to invest in a killer game machine."
 

[Dementia13]

Holly **** Diden´t know that... Dead but not forgotten - Long live the Amiga.

[FOL]

Today is the Amiga's 20th anniversary. Commodore officially introduced the Amiga 1000 with much fanfare at the Lincoln Center in New York on July 23, 1985. It was the most advanced computer of its day. The Amiga 1000 was originally conceived a few years earlier by a small California company called Amiga, Inc. and was financed by a group of Florida doctors looking to invest in a killer game machine."
 

Think he means 21 years ago, . I was 7, im 28 this year, knock off 7, gives you 21,

[ParaSitius]

Happy Birthday Amiga.

[FOL]

Happy Birthday Amiga.

Hope I make the front page site news, in 8 days time, its my birthday, , lol

[ParaSitius]

How much is it worth to you?


 

[FOL]

How much is it worth to you?


 

lmao, lets not drag another topic off topic,

[ParaSitius]

Pfft, you started it.

 



21 years though, sheesh don't time fly when you are having fun.

[Hai]

Ah cool, I will celebrate this with some killer-demos on my old friend!

[FOL]

Today is the Amiga's 20th anniversary. Commodore officially introduced the Amiga 1000 with much fanfare at the Lincoln Center in New York on July 23, 1985. It was the most advanced computer of its day. The Amiga 1000 was originally conceived a few years earlier by a small California company called Amiga, Inc. and was financed by a group of Florida doctors looking to invest in a killer game machine."
 

I thought Jay Miner was the Father of the Amiga, and he left after Commodore bought Amiga out. He then went to Atari and made the Atari Lynx, well thats what I read somewhere.

The other thing that gets me is, that 2 of the Amiga developers were fired, so they went off to Atari and made the ST, but they made it junk compared to the Amiga and released it a year before to steal market share. My problem with this is, why make it with worse sound than the Amiga, cause we know the gfx are on par with the Amiga. If they wanted real revenge, why not build something better and kill the Amiga?

[ParaSitius]

The ST had the better sound chips from what I remember, it was always chosen over the Amiga by budding artists.  I had several friends back in those days that tried both machines and they all ended up keeping the ST for their music creations.

The Amiga pretty much trounced the ST in all other departments though.

[FOL]

The ST had the better sound chips from what I remember, it was always chosen over the Amiga by budding artists.  I had several friends back in those days that tried both machines and they all ended up keeping the ST for their music creations.

The Amiga pretty much trounced the ST in all other departments though.

Ermmm, im deffo think your wrong on sound, ST had less channels, 100% sure of that.

[ParaSitius]

Only going by what I remember my mates choosing and the ST was the preferred choice.

[Hungry Horace]

the only reason the ST  was a popular choice with musicians, was because it had built in MIDI ports for controlling external synthesisers and the like... people got used to proper sequencing software, which would have been better if done on the amiga, had commodore opted to fit MIDI ports to the a500...

ST sound is terrible, and the programmers who use ST's dont do anything on the internal sound hardware... sadly not enough people knew about buying a serial -> midi conveter for the amiga, so the "pro" sequencers got left behind in favour of the Tracker-type progrmas such as Octamed on the amiga. As brilliant as these are (and where i started composing) the amiga sound chip (paula) was still only 8-bit, and not much good for studio work.

i think if C= had thought about it, they could have made up'ed paula to CD-quality (16 bit 44khz) instead of 8-bit, and stuck a midi in/out all on the A1200 - we would be looking at a lot more memories of Amiga use in the early days of many good musicians... as it is, history tells a different story.

ok, off-topic rant over...

cheers for the info on the birthday... and the amiga deserves to be celbrated!

[ParaSitius]

Ah, that's what my crap memory failed to remember.  Was the MIDI ports that made it the choice for musicians. my mistake then.