Posts Tagged ‘amiga’
Opinion: Catching up with Commodore »
Commodores & Amigas may be little more than an antique now but it was be well ahead of its time in some ways, says Adam Maguire. As fondly remembered as Commodore may be, few fans would trade in their existing computer for a C64 or Amiga A500. However as antiquated as the technology is it did approach computing in a way that was ...Read On »
Opinion: PC Nostalgia for a simpler – and slower »
The Commodore 64 has been ‘relaunched’ as a modern Windows PC. Jason Walsh asks if we are getting a bit too nostalgic for times gone by. You just can’t keep an old computer down. The Commodore 64, an ancient machine of the 8-bit era has been relaunched as a quad-core Ubuntu machine. OK, it’s not really a Commodore 64, it’s just ...Read On »
Opinion: It came from the grave »
Fourteen years after the last model appeared the Amiga is back, reports Jason Walsh. Old computers never die, they just become objects of fascination for small groups of geeks. It's true. There is not a computer out there that doesn't interest someone – from Vaxen to BeBoxes, NeXT Cubes to Atari Falcons and SGI Irix boxes, every kind ...Read On »
