Amiga Wars
Back in 1999, I hate to admit, but I was a total Eccentric. I was absolutely crazy about the Amiga computer.
The Amiga had just about left mainstream, and people were buying their wintel pentium boxes. The Amiga still had a loyal following that were turning their "games consoles" into high end systems that kicked the arse out of any PC on the market. It was also trying to make a bit of a comeback and be a serious competetor to Billy Gates and his PC croneys, and I was in full support.

Infact, I was rather obsessed with the whole thing. I actually dislikes people if they just went out and bought a PC blindly. I mean how stupid can you get? Duur well everyone else has got a PC so I will get one. Yeah enjoy your crappy Windoze 95 that needs virtual memory because your 16meg isnt enough. Hmm well sorry I can cope just fine on 4 meg of memory WITHOUT the need to use my hard disk for Virtual Memory. Oh and how much data do you fit on a floppy disk? Aww 1.44meg? I store 1.96meg on mine. Aww limited to 8 character filenames? ha ha fuck you!

Seriously I would start arguments and debates in class that would almost get physical. I even wrote a book called "Why the Amiga is better than the PC" and sent it to everyone in college.

It was true, The Amiga WAS better than the PC at the time. I was doing far more with my Amiga than a PC of equivilent hardware spec could even dream about. PCs just had no idea what pre-emptive multitasking even was. We would laugh at the whole issue with IRQ conflicts. Sound card conflicting with the mouse? WTF??? Thats what you get you PC Lamers for having inferior systems!

Amiga was ahead of its time, and I do still wonder to this day how much better computers would be if Amiga had continued onwards, and not been screwed over by shitty Pee Ceeeee companies that bought them out.

So yes, I was a complete Amiga nut. I preached it, it was almost a religion to me.

Then, and thankfully, my bollocks dropped and I found a girl to be fanatic about instead.

Its always with me. My first baby boy will be called Jay... Afer the almight Jay Minor. May him and the Amiga R.I.P :)
(Miggyman, Sun 2 Nov 2008, 13:39, 14 replies)

let it go man,
..let it go.
(inflateable, Sun 2 Nov 2008, 14:45, closed)

nooooooooooooo
*boots UAE*
(Miggyman, Sun 2 Nov 2008, 16:40, closed)

no doubt you're aware of this, but
QUOTE: Then, and thankfully, my bollocks dropped and I found a girl to be fanatic about instead.

completely awesomely, the Spanish word for girlfriend is 'amiga' (probably).
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Sun 2 Nov 2008, 14:50, closed)

Yes it is :)
Well to be precise. A friend in Spanish is Amiga. But when talking about a friend who is a girl its Amiga. But an actual Girlfriend (as in someone youre shaggin) is a Novia.
(Miggyman, Sun 2 Nov 2008, 16:38, closed)

try not to think about
the ease of programming with AMOS Basic.
(apeloverage committed the vile act of onanism on, Sun 2 Nov 2008, 14:52, closed)

The ST was better...
... at least you could code to the metal with it.
(dxg, Sun 2 Nov 2008, 15:12, closed)

You could on Amiga.
Dont get me going with the Amiga vs the ST wars. We all know the Amiga was a lot better, and the only thing that the ST had going for it, is that it had a built in MIDI interface. Everything else about the ST was a pile of cack, and infact the ST wouldnt even have existed if it didnt have the influence of the Amiga. It was just a poorer inferior version. Simple as :)
(Miggyman, Sun 2 Nov 2008, 16:40, closed)

Ok, ok
Ease up there. Let it go now. It's been 20 years.

Your last sentance there is just wrong though. Wasn't the Amiga chipset supposed to go in the Atari originally? So the Amiga wouldn't have existed if the Atari management weren't such dickholes.

So, 360 or ps3?

/had an STE
//had a 130XE before that.
///Some things never change.
(Prof. Moriarty put his foot in it on, Sun 2 Nov 2008, 17:27, closed)

Let it go? LET IT GO?? LET IT F**KIN GO??????
Surely if people are still under the dillusion than an antiquated system which had no multitasking capabilities what so ever was better than the Amiga chipset then we need to set this right otherwise our grandsons will grow up living a lie!!!!

(Im merely being eccentric here and takin the wee wee now ) :D
(Miggyman, Sun 2 Nov 2008, 17:48, closed)

No multitasking?
Well, maybe not easily on the STe and Mega ST, but that was because they used the Motorola 68000, which couldn't keep other threads going if one crashed. Same as the Amiga, of course.

Then MultiTOS came along, which made a pretty fair stab at mulitasking, but was soon overtaken by the TT which had a 68030, fully capable of multitasking.

But then, Amigas were only ever used to play games with their rather crude graphics system. As the RM380Zs faded away from labs round the country and before the Amstrad PC640HDs arrived, you'd find lots of STs doing serious computing. No Amigas, though.
(ubergeekian, Sun 2 Nov 2008, 19:04, closed)

Amiga
That was the games machine, wasn't it, with a rather funny user interface and chips called things like Fat Agnes.

The Mega ST 4 we had in the lab would run DOS/Windows in an emulator box and MacOS through the wonderful Spectre GCR (faster than a contemporary Mac and a bigger screen and would read Mac disks) and, when we felt like it, Minix.

So while we were vaguely aware that Commodore had something on the market, it never seemed worth getting worked up about. Sweet to hear that some of you cared.
(ubergeekian, Sun 2 Nov 2008, 18:59, closed)

10 years ago.
I'd have blown your statements out of the water easilly.

Now i've squirted far too much tostesterone, smoked too much weed and had too much alcohol and really dont care anymore :)
(Miggyman, Mon 3 Nov 2008, 11:55, closed)

jay who??
that`ll be jay miner then, `father of the amiga`?
good job you`re only giving the kid the first name, it`s spelt correctly! :p
//massive amiga geek, tho my heart belonged to the speccy
(hiddenshallows, Tue 4 Nov 2008, 0:25, closed)

I did a similar thing
with Acorn machines. They were great until they went bust.
( gareth_alien will be human again at, Mon 3 Nov 2008, 16:27, closed)