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- by dude250711
- Seeing the juggler, and lots of other gee-whiz stuff in 1986 inspired me to buy an Amiga 500 as my first computer in 1988. I got a lot of mileage out of that system, with its whopping 1.5MB of RAM, and two floppy drives (after shelling out another ~$150 for the 1MB upgrade and however much for an external floppy).
- If you click the color cycling animations it shows the palette being actively changed and is very interesting to observe!by a1o
- Previously on HN:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47813566
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10972849
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17783531
and more...
by erickhill - Things were much better back then ;]by inkkin
- Calling it AGA gave a snicker to many people I'm sureby inigyou
- Defender of the Crown gives me so much flashbacks. The artwork is still great!by Yokohiii
- I have especially fond memories associated with this logo (which is a work of art all of its own IMHO): https://amiga.lychesis.net/assets/Logos/Psygnosis_1990_b.png
And this one https://amiga.lychesis.net/assets/Logos/SiliconSynapse.png, besides being a very cool name, will forever be associated in my mind with The Lost Vikings (although I played that one on a PC, not the Amiga).
by rob74