But one thing is certain – the Amiga still has loyal fans that can’t get enough of the platform.
The rest of the Amiga’s story is a convoluted mess that’s been told ad nauseam and continues to spur heated debate to this day. It offered multimedia features that were unmatched for many years, it was affordably priced (relatively speaking), and was the first personal computer with true multi-tasking capabilities, among numerous other things.ĭespite the Amiga’s superiority, Commodore eventually imploded some 23+ years ago and took the Amiga down with it. At the time of its launch, the Amiga was the most advanced personal computer money could buy – bar none. Those of us that were around when the Amiga initially debuted knew Commodore had something special on its hands.
Dave Haynie, one of the chief engineers that worked on the Amiga back in its heyday, put it best when he said, “Amiga users make Macintosh users look like PC users”, in the Viva Amiga documentary that was released early this year.
