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Old 01-18-2002, 06:51 PM
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Default What is amiga?

Does anyone know what amiga is?

I have heard a lot of dicussion about it lately on tv and on the net.

Whats the big deal with it?
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Old 01-18-2002, 08:38 PM
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Default Re: What is amiga?

a non pc older system which had really good graphics
and sound + good games. http://www.scenet.de/amp/
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Old 01-18-2002, 08:43 PM
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Default more amiga?

http://www.world-of-amiga.de/inde.html
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Old 01-18-2002, 08:46 PM
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Default Re: What is amiga?

It was a pretty cool gaming system, came out after the Cammodore 128, around that era anyhow.

Didn't see much use for it other than games, but some of my peers did use it for spreadsheets and like.

Didn't know they were still around. Haven't heard much about in years. Are they making a comeback? I don't watch much TV News n stuff. More into watching moving and sluggin down the ol 151 when I'm at home.
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Old 01-18-2002, 11:08 PM
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Default Re: What is amiga?

I used to have one when I was about 5..heh..

Its was soooo fun....Im going to go buy on when I have a spare $10 actually...

they have a pretty big cult following, and although they stoped making em years ago some fans make there own!!

Pretty cool stuff.
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Old 01-19-2002, 05:34 AM
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Default Re: What is amiga?

roflmao

sorry..but over in the uk amiga is a extremely well known thing...if you sed that to a techie over here they would probably piss themselves laughing

basically its what bear said, came out around 70/80s i think
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Old 01-19-2002, 08:04 AM
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Default Re: What is amiga?

70ties a bit early
it started 1987
Here is pics and info about the machines
http://www.amigaland.de/computer/ami...p3?show=serien
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Old 01-19-2002, 09:04 AM
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Default 1992 IBM vs. 1992 AMIGA

AMIGA
24-bit color quadrophonic sound
http://www.amigaland.de/computer/ami...hp3?show=a4000

IBM
16-bit XGA  sound ?
http://www.can.ibm.com/helpware/9556.html
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Old 01-27-2002, 09:02 AM
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Default Re: What is amiga?

god , didn´t think of them for years. a friend of mine has about 5 or 6 "breadboxes" at home. reaching from commodore 64 up to amiga 500.the amiga 500 had some sort of OS named "workbench" wich was loaded from two 5,25"s after switching the machine on. he also has a datasette recorder wich stores data onto normal audio cassettes. that schtuff was great fun. technically, the amigas were great machines. and u can use old amiga monitors as very good tv sets  ´cause they use comosite video signals and have tremendous picture quality.
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Old 01-27-2002, 09:37 AM
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Default Re: What is amiga?

I still have a lot of those old computers.  I still have my C 64 and I had the chance to purchase an Amiga but didnt.  amiga's do look pretty neat though (there design)
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