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Stop whining, in 1985 I paid $400 for 256 kilobyte RAM for my Amiga 1000, AND I WAS HAPPY!
You kids nowadays are spoiled, with 100,000 times more RAM if you have an average build with 16 GB RAM and 8 GB VRAM.
But the Amiga was still more fun than modern computers.
Is it me? Or is it the kids that are wrong?
Hmmm... 🤔 ...
It must be the kids. 😋
Nah, you're both right. When that Amiga was out, if you wanted entertainment, you have to leave the house, go to a movie, god ~85, you might not even have had a VCR.
That Amiga was the greatest, most useful and entertaining thing on the market.
Now a days, a shitty c-rate cellphone can bring you every movie, tv show, song, idiot with a camera that you'd ever want to experience.
Okay grandma let's get you to bed...
Maybe not. It's like car enthusiasts refusing any modern car, especially EV that are on paper much more powerful but less fun to tinker and go down country roads.
But but but but my timing gun! And the points, plugs, and condenser! And the distributor cap! I NEED those to make my car worth driving and life worth living. /s
I do not require a combustion chamber in my sports car. I do however, prefer a curb weight under 1500 kg, which happens to exclude the vast majority of cars for sale in North America, even sporty ones, and EV sports cars under 1500 kg are very difficult to find indeed.
I literally ran into this guy while on a hike just last week. He made it a point to tell me that people with degrees don't know shit too. Interesting character.
In their special area they generally do, outside that they are probably like most people with an IQ above 100.
AFAIK Amigas are still in service in a few places, especially music studios.
https://www.generationamiga.com/2026/01/18/apollo-a6000-review-the-ultimate-68k-amiga-rebuilt-for-the-modern-age/
https://www.apollo-computer.com/a6000.php
:-)
I was getting excited... until I read the price :/
$1200 USD.
Well, very on brand for Amiga to be $$$.
I think I'll wait for the TheA1200 or failing that, buy an old clunker and stick a PiStorm into it.
https://retrogames.biz/products/thea1200/
Wow that's pretty cool, I thought M68k series ended with 68060!
I still have an old Amiga 500 that my wife bought for me many years ago, because I never shut up about how superior Amiga was back in the day, and how amazing it was to program M68k assembly direct to hardware on it.
The highest power Amiga I ever had was a 68030 expansion card to an Amiga 2000. Then I stupidly switched to PC, because that was the future. But the PC killed my interest in programming, because it's only semi open, not open like the Amiga was.