Talk:History of the Amiga

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[edit] A more positive spin?

I just read over what I have self written and find that it comes of as a bit negative - IOW tends to focus on the negative side of the Amiga's history. This was not intentional but the Amiga's / Commodore's negative happenings are just better documented. Can someone dig out some positive Amiga news (say 'record profits from Amiga sales', Commodore outsold XYZ this x-mas - I believe AmigaCD outsold PC-CD at some point?, perhaps add a paragraph about NewTeck? ...) and mangle them into the article.--Anss123 11:07, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

Hehe, "mangle". There is no "c" in NewTek if anyone is rushing to search for it. I dare say there's a lot we could add to this article to balance it out, I'm scatalogically messing with most of the Amiga articles as I can. There's a lot of info out there these days, seems every man and his amiga has set up a "History of the Amiga" page. --Monotonehell 22:09, 2 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Amiga & Apple

These statments can add value to the article, but I think they need to be fleshed out a little:

Steve Jobs was shown the original prototype for the first Amiga and said there was "too much hardware". He was working on Macintosh at the time."

So does the Amiga have too much hardware? Or is SJ out on the left feild?

Jean-Louis Gassee, formerly of Apple Computer, was quoted as saying: "When the Amiga came out, everyone (at Apple) was scared as hell." (Amazing Computing, November 1996)

Why were they scared as hell? What about the amiga scared them?

--Anss123 19:37, 20 January 2007 (UTC)

These were cut from the main Amiga article's Trivia section and plonked here. So they may be a little terse. I didn't write them originally so I can't help other than speculate. --Monotonehell 11:04, 21 January 2007 (UTC)

Well it was a particularly advanced piece of kit that did a lot of stuff that not many home computers could do. Leiam149 16:48, 23 March 2007 (UTC)

That is not quite the answer I was looking for. How was it advanced? What could it do that others could not? Think about it, and put a paragraph about it into the article. :D --Anss123 19:54, 23 March 2007 (UTC)