View Full Version : Happy Birthday Amiga!
icbrkr
07-23-2005, 08:57 AM
Today is the 20th birthday of the original Amiga. On this day back in 1985, the Amiga 1000 was introduced to the world changing the way we think of computers forever. Introduced was real preemptive multitasking in as little as 512K, presentation that would basically be the forerunners of the now popular phrase "multimedia", and of course, lots of arcade style gaming goodness.
Dust off your original Amiga (or if you're me, just fire the one on your desk up), load up WinUAE on your PC/Mac, or invest in a new AmigaOne motherboard today to celebrate the Miggy's birthday!
http://www.particles.org/amiga/amiga1.jpg
robotriot
07-23-2005, 09:06 AM
I will have to celebrate by getting a new motherboard for my A1200, I found out the Paula chip is broken yesterday :/
Anyway, happy birthday to my favorite computer :D
98PaceCar
07-23-2005, 10:54 AM
Wow! Twenty years! I was just a C64 user when the Amiga came out and I lusted after it for the better part of 10 years before I got one. Saved my pennies and bought myself a 500 from Sears!
Now, I've got 6 of them with 2 set up all the time. Gonna have to fire up Leander in celebration!
le geek
07-23-2005, 11:12 AM
I'll have to fire up the old 2000HD!!! Happy Birthday Amiga! Jay Miner would be proud!
TheRedEye
07-23-2005, 11:57 AM
Now the theme song to Fiendish Freddy is going to be stuck in my head all day. Thanks a lot.
Lothars
07-23-2005, 05:39 PM
Happy Birthday Amiga :bday:
http://amiga.emugaming.com/ahistory.html
Here's a link I got from slashdot about it which is really the only way I found out about it's birthday :)
Might be interesting
Flack
07-23-2005, 05:42 PM
Happy birthday!
And, great picture. +500 meseta!
Great picture indeed. I just played Project X and Alien Breed yesterday! Have to fire up the A500 tonight and play some Walker.
NEED an Internal Floppy for my A1200! PLEASE HELP!
SoulBlazer
07-24-2005, 01:46 AM
So what IS going on with Amiga these days, anyway?
I was always a C64/128 man myself from 1984 to 1994, but I had a friend with a Amiga and the graphics that thing could do was YEARS ahead of anything else out there. Some great games also.
Phosphor Dot Fossils
07-25-2005, 10:27 PM
Kinda hard to believe. I was using an Amiga with the mighty Video Toaster to do professional, on-air TV work - well, okay, I guess the word "professional" is optional since it was a lower-than-low-budget Fox station - as recently as 1997. Sure takes me back. I wouldn't mind getting an old Toaster setup just to play with one of these days.
Sotenga
07-26-2005, 11:10 AM
Kudos to turning me on to the Turrican series! Happy birthday, Ammy! :bday: :drinking: :cheers: