Always been fascinated by the Amiga as an American. These just weren't a thing here. As a kid in the dialup era of the internet, I discovered Amiga. It was an interesting time in the mid 90's, there were lots of Amiga users who still believed there might be a future for it.every now and then I check in on the Amiga community from afar and see sadly that it's over.
>>106992239>These just weren't a thing here.they were very much a thing in usa>mid 90s>believe there might be a future for itnever happened. everyone knew it was fucked. > I check in on the Amiga community from afar and see sadly that it's over.still alive and well, much like the c64 scene and others. have you tried not being a mentally ill liar using chatgpt to create embarrassing user engagement threads in order to make it seem like this website still has a userbase?
>>106992263>never happened. everyone knew it was fucked.Not OP but looking back it seems a lot like what happened to BlackBerry: they were dominant for a time and it made the leadership arrogant and blind.
I was an Amiga fanboy and only changed to PC because Commdore died, I'd still be using them today. such a great machine.I partly blame American kids for not embracing computers like the Amiga and buying consoles instead.
>>106992239Amiga was more prominent in the professional space than the consumer space in the US, at least later on in life
>>106992239>>106992406I really enjoyed the 500 and later 1200 seriesWhat a sound ! , what graphics !Online multiplayer and 800 MB HDD here I fucking cum !!!Incredible machine !
>>106992263dude you are 25 years old and no, Amigas were never popular in the USA
>>106992239I had a friend that refused to use anything but Amiga well into PC era. I ended up gifting him my A2000 configuration.
>>106992332Doom killed Amiga in the end.
>>106992476They had a few niches in America, at least the big box Amiga models.Like low-budget/prosumer video editing and astronomy.Early anime fansubs on VHS were made with Amiga.
>>106992515Nah, Commodore killed itself.They were already facing bankruptcy after years of grossly overpaid management, embezzlement and corruption in Commodore.Their chip fabs were horribly outdated and they barely funded R&D - every Amiga update was always too little too late like with AGA.Commodore was actually developing a new Amiga successor, called Hombre, which had 3D graphics. But again they were too slow.
>>106992581yeah maybe but I'm gen-x and remember copy party when doom hit. you just don't understand what the impact of that game was, everyone was gathering around couple of pc's running doom and it was clear amiga was done and finished since for the price of a1200 you could now get am386dx40 tho with no monitor that could run doom.
>>106992719People called the A1200 outdated and unable to compete with PC the moment it was released.That was not some big new revelation.
cool to know zoomers have watched a singular youtube video about Amiga and are chiming in with their expertise to tell us how it really went down
>>106992768why are you talking about yourself in the third person?
>>106992761yeah not really, doom was first killer thing that was not reproducible on amiga. maybe specs where underwhelming but there was really nothing amiga couldn't do till someone plastered textures over polygons.
>>106992263I never knew anyone with an Amiga. I had an Atari ST at the time and also didn't know anyone with one of those either... I knew a handful of PC fags though.
>>106992841I'm from slavlands, late 80's it was 70% amiga, 20% atari st and 10% pc. I had Atari.pc's didn't really take off till am386dx40 based clones hit in very early 90's.
>>106992829What? No.You already had games like Wing Commander (yeah it got an Amiga port later but it ran like shit on an A500) and Ultima Underworld on PC before Doom. Doom was not the first game showcasing PC's new graphics capabilities.When the A500 came out, it could run better looking games on hardware that cost less than a PC.Neither A600 nor A1200 could claim the same.
Fcuk commodore, I got memes into buying a CDTV, I exchanged my Amiga 500 and payed more money on top of it and ended up with a piece of shit. Got my hands on a PC as soon as possible after that fiasco and never looked back.
Bong here, we carried the Amiga along with the Germans and the Swedish. LUV ME MEEGA, SIMPLE AS
A1200 was when the amiga got gud and yes it could play doom-likes. A4000 was a beast just way too expensive
