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BBC Micro Live (1985) - Commodore Amiga Debut



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Fred Harris looks at the cutting edge Amiga computer.


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na i never had one ... ( 4 months ago by davesni)
na i never had one but my friend did and he had a game about people shooting each other. but the people didnt look like real people they just looked like crap!
You're a donkey. ... ( 4 months ago by agw9262)
You're a donkey. Nostalgia is important, and do you not care where the capabilities of the modern PC come from? The youth of today...ungrateful and pathetic
Your comments make ... ( 4 months ago by agw9262)
Your comments make you a knob. Grow up, accept the past and respect the fact that some people respect the past. You are the youth (disgrace) of today
no way man...you're ... ( 4 months ago by davesni)
no way man...you're wrong you're so wrong!
i played this when it came out...but it just couldnt cope. may i ask what u used urs for? and it never even did internet
You played what ... ( 4 months ago by agw9262)
You played what when it came out? Which one of the thousands of games produced over the years? And just what couldn't it cope with exactly?
I used mine for gaming, word processing - managed to get through college with it, DTP - used to help print a magazine oh... and internet. Which it could do - iBrowse for example was a popular browser, I was online with Demon with it. All that on a stock A500 - same speed as the A1000 with ECS gr
aphics not OCS and 0.5m chip ram.
i want a amiga i ... ( 4 months ago by myfatproductions)
i want a amiga i dont know why but i just want one:S
lol this is insane ... ( 4 months ago by korgkiller)
lol this is insane remeber thos bbc computers they had in schools haha.
shit! i want this ... ( 4 months ago by RobertC19850209)
shit! i want this software ported to either vista or ubuntu linux please! lol
we need a show like ... ( 3 months ago by dj2bklyn)
we need a show like today G4 SUCKS BALLS
That's true, it was ... ( 3 months ago by h792)
That's true, it was. I think it was more expensive than the STfm so we settled for that, which was fine, but the Amiga was quite a bit better, looking back.
Great! ( 3 months ago by Benlyafi)
Great!
Listening to an mp3 ... ( 3 months ago by konrad303)
Listening to an mp3 while loading a picture would have been difficult on the original Amiga. Apart from neither mp3 nor jpg existing back then, the first Amiga only had 256K memory, while a regular mp3 already is much bigger. And although the Amiga was quite a fast machine for its time, it was much too slow to decode mp3 in real time. And where did you get the idea of the first graphical net browser being on Amiga? What do you mean?
They all stole from ... ( 3 months ago by konrad303)
They all stole from Xerox.
Amiga was not ... ( 3 months ago by konrad303)
Amiga was not pre-IBM PC. IBM released the first PC model in 1981. In 1985, when the Amiga was released, most of the IBM compatible PCs around however were still basically the same as the original PC. Also the XTs and ATs, IBM's successors of the original PC, were hugely inferior to the Amiga. Even Apple's Macintosh, which came one year earlier and was much more expensive, couldn't compete with the Amiga technologically.
At least the Basic ... ( 3 months ago by konrad303)
At least the Basic that came with the Amiga was by Microsoft. Actually even the Commodore Basic that was used on all the 8 Bit Commodore Machines was based on Microsoft Basic, which is why the start screen on a C128 mentions a 1977 copyright for Microsoft.
The first Mac was ... ( 3 months ago by konrad303)
The first Mac was presented one year earlier. It had a WIMP Interface and a 68000 CPU just like the Amiga. But the Mac had only 2 colors(!) and 128K Memory in the original model, while the Amiga had 4096 colors, higher resolutions and more memory (256K originally). It also had digital stereo sound, a much better multitasking operating system and two mouse buttons! :) Actually, it was the Amiga which put the Macintosh to shame (the Atari ST already was better than the Mac).
yep I know. I ... ( 3 months ago by ancalimonungol)
yep I know. I actually said what became possible. Not What was possible. BTW I listened to an mp3 using my A500 with 1MB RAM. It decoded the file first which took many minutes. But in the end I did it. :) Way before people knew what an mp3 was.
Mosaic was the name ... ( 3 months ago by ancalimonungol)
Mosaic was the name the browser.
- 3 times faster ... ( 2 months ago by Ahle2)
- 3 times faster graphics - 8 times as many colors to choose from - 256 as many colors at once - 4 independent sample channels compared to 3 square wave channels(inferior to NES) - Hardware scrolling - Sprites - Blitter - Copper There was a huge difference actually !
Special chips ... ( 1 month ago by YakChap)
Special chips devoted entirely to graphics? That's just crazy talk.
This looks like ... ( 2 weeks ago by Leadwerks)
This looks like shit.
Humm I remember ... ( 2 weeks ago by evo5dave)
Humm I remember watching this as a kid. I could have sworn they used 'Computer Love' my Kraftwerk as a theme tune but, having heard it again, I can see they just did a crappy rip-off!
The theme actually ... ( 2 weeks ago by Lachlant1984)
The theme actually sounds more like "It's more fun to compute" crossed with "Home computer". I see what you mean though.
Try WinUAE and get ... ( 2 days ago by int3rl0per)
Try WinUAE and get your hands on the Workbench disks.



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