A few months ago I had a brief flirtation with that other Commodore product -- The Amiga. I picked up an old Amiga 500 at a flea market for $25 and had to try it out. Only had a couple of programs and a few games. Then I ran into an Amiga 3000 with a Video Toaster at a thrift store for only $180. I bought it and tried it out. This time I had plenty of programs. An old friend had just sold his and had a thousand or so disks of Amiga software. He loaned me the software and I tried it all out. Interesting, but I still preferred my 64 and 128 for most things I do on a computer. The only advantage I saw was viewing at VGA resolution and more colors. However, most of what I do is text and drawings that don't need that much color. It just made the screen easier to see well. But, I can do that on the 128 or 64 when word processing by simply flipping over to a Black and White screen.
The talk about speed was interesting and just that, talk. Sure, the Amiga had a faster clock rate and a Lot of memory. But, where it counts I really couldn't see much of an advantage. I have a Ramlink and a CMD hard drive connected to it by a parallel cable. I can be up and working on the 64 or 128 in GEOS or THE WRITE STUFF about as fast as I can in a word processor on the Amiga or in GEOS on the MS-DOS machine.
I guess maybe if my thing was video animation I might have been more impressed with the Amiga. In any event, I needed money and sold the Amiga 3000 for a whopping profit margin.
If someone gave us an Amiga I would probably use it for a few things but have no interest at the moment in investing any money in an Amiga system. Besides, it will be a few years before I use up all the 128's and spare 128's we have. Wonder if the Amiga will still be around by then???
