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FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 4 months ago
At risk of embarrassing myself, what the hell is an Amiga?
The Commodore Amiga is a family of personal computers that were available from 1985. They used the Motorolla 6800 family of CPUs, the main competitor to Intel’s x86 CPUs at the time.
The Amiga is held in great esteem, in no small part due to its innovative design featuring the use of co-processors. The co-processors had their own names, such as Paula, the sound co-processor.
Ah, now Commodores are a name that everybody recognizes.
Late 80s/Early 90s computer. Not the architecture we use today, but a competitor to what we use.
These devices are when PCs looked more like something you would recognise today, a bulky beige box with a big monitor.
My 80’s computer was a big bulky keyboard with a big monitor, lacking the big separate box (not an Amiga though). Is that what you meant with this?
Successor to Commodore 64
Hector_McG@programming.dev 4 months ago
An early 16 bit home computer based on the 68000 microprocessor. Versions released from the late 80s to the early 90s. It earned a cult following because it was the first home computer to have arcade quality graphics and sound (80s and 90s arcade games, obs).
It had a decent OS and business software, but at heart it was a gaming computer. It lost out to the home consoles, partly because as a fully fledged computer, piracy was rife, so big games developers moved to the very locked-down games consoles instead.
FiniteBanjo@lemmy.today 4 months ago
That’s really neat, I’ve played a few DOS era games but I didn’t think that sort of home computer hardware was around in the mid 80s.