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I vaguely recall the game “moonquake” on one of these kind of machines. There was one other that I don’t recall the name of where you moved a 3d type gem around
Internet was great until mid 2010s
I wish IBM were still this sexy
Quake wasn't really playable.
well, windows isn't only slow on arm :P
a lot of games for the arc didn’t take advantage of its hardware and were just quick cashgrabs of ports. if you want to see what it can really do have a look at some of the modern demos/ exclusives.
you can see @ 13:19 the QL-Quill wafer is damaged (the pad is missing to push against the read/write head) so no wonder it didn't load!
"Was It Better Than The Amiga?" Well, if you compare it with 1985 tech 😉, mostly yes. Commodore f#? up their chances. I am reading Brian Bagnalls Commodore trilogy. Man were Commodore managers bad, Tramiel included, but he at least had focus and drive. But some of Commodores issue came from some of his (and Goulds) pasts decisions. This also goes for the engineering managers. The infighting in engineering was also not helpful.
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will this play the Gold box AD&D games? Also would of been nice if the keyboard was real.
Amiga OS was hideous to look at
Vista wasn’t even bad if you had a modern PC. I ran it until 2010 and never had issues with anything.
NSYNC, and Backstreet boys, along with Disney on Sunday, the
Try right-click and drag for drag and drop: can make shadow objects or move / copy files depending on the destination and a key press. Doing this will illustrate on the screen the action with a line and direction arrow. I run ArcaOS on a laptop from 2003 and is very responsive, having just 2gb of memory. I use the Warp 3.0 theme as I found that to be best for my use. Thank you for trying OS/2 as a novice user experience demo.
i had issues with cards on ME.. i upgraded my vid card lan and switched over to a sound card and had no issues after that .. worked perfect
I thought about this yesterday, but I didn't talk about it or look for it! How skillfully the youtube algorithm guesses 😮😅
It was a good computer my perants bought one when i was a kid had it for years tomb raider 3, house of the dead, paint and listening to cd's was amazing.
My favourite OS, it runs like a bullet without any questions asked, even more so than Linux
That... is a 5£ party!
You've basically accessed the modern dark web since there's no real difference aside from the pay method.. Those plebes actually think they've discovered something.
When I was a kid I took the rubber part off the joystick and stuck it on my forehead and it made a hickey for a week.
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Nah bro literally has a jet engine in his office
Windows Xp was the best with system restore one time I had to go as far as to go through restoring the master boot record on three hard drive was crazy but I got it had to do it manually but I got it
idk, i bought an amiga in 1986, and i loved it. but now i recognize that period of my life, tracking down the commodore dead end, as a wasted learning opportunity. by 1990, my professional career could not advance without a pc compatible. i was frustrated with commodore's inability to create a meaningful successor. i would ask, what came after the archimedes? was it another dead end? was ms-dos and windows the ultimate be-all and end-all, with all other paths a dead end?
Learning is never for nothing. Amiga gave me a view a lot with only PC-compatible past never see past. More narrow. You can see that sadly a lot with PC Linux people.
@@TheGraemi Thanks, I agree with that viewpoint. However, there is a form of learning that IS for nothing. I am frustrated with what appears to be change for changes sake in Microsoft products. Every few years you have to re-learn structural and access changes in their tools. You are doing the same thing, and if there is a benefit to the change, it is completely unclear to users who are already trained and must repurpose their already-committed gray matter. The outcome is, age no longer equates to wisdom, because we are forced to discard and re-learn many things every few years. In cases where you gain enhanced capability, this makes sense, but so many times it seems to be only a matter of change for change's sake. Goodbye, age and wisdom. Hello, supremacy of youth who are unarguably more open to new ideas and can learn more quickly. The result of such seemingly arbitrary mechanical and interface changes is planned obsolescence of human beings. I think both youth and experience should have their domains, but experience is being attrited more quickly than ever before. This is not the complain of a luddite: I refer only to change for the sake of change, which makes the aged ever more obsolete.
@@odd13579 I agree, changes for changes sake is bad. Uses energy (literal and ours) and resources for nothing. Sadly this is really common in our current economy. Easier to make money for the decision makers. 😞
Hey guys I personally am a fan of old school Atari games as a concept. I am currently developing a game called Quinlin which is inspired by Atari games, it's an adventure game with various survival, exploration and crafting elements. It is story driven but also is going for a free-roam but guided approach. I think some good modern parallels are games like Red Dead Redemption 2 and games like Minecraft and Morrowind. The original idea was spawned while I was a teen and working landscape with my step-father. I have a working demo that you can find on my channel for PC. I would really appreciate feedback.
I mean it’s great… but I expected music from the fiver
why the heck would you expect that
IBM on their gold times, for sure.
"MAGIC"
they finally made scp 079 real
It sounds like the way most record players make a slight noise anyhow when playing without speakers, although I can hear this is a bit louder
Never gonna give you up …….
Try a pin pushed through the narrow end of a piece of paper rolled into a cone shape. That does the trick.
Had some fun with the PS1, although at the time Half life on the PC absolutely wiped the floor with it.The PS2 was where it really got good.
This software was the worst. games that were already hacked could easily be copied within workbench. Xcopy was supposed to copy the new games, but it never worked once
Didn't they release a CD drive for the 1200 that turned it into a CD32?
Dude realizing that he bought his neighboor's 90s laptop
My dude, a third of this video is an ad.
Surfing the web in 2024: man all this ai shit suucks Surfing the web in 2001: They did WHAT to the world trade centre??
The Archimedes had a world-class BASIC as standard, as part of the OS. The Amiga had multiple competing BASICs with no clear winner. The Amiga's OS loaded from floppy so for useful work you needed two drives, or ideally, a hard disk. The Archimedes' OS was in ROM, so a single drive was much more viable.
The Amiga floppy drive was also unbelievably slow, which compounded the issue.
@@dna9838 But if you compare 1985 tech with 1989 tech, Amiga doesn't fares so bad. 😉 Just shows how Commodore squandered their chances. Sad story.
@@TheGraemi the tech was 1987 though.. The arch 3010 was to the original 1987 arch 310 as the amiga 500 was to the 1000 (although if memory serves the 3010 was a system-on-a-chip to reduce costs.) acorn made a real mess of their marketing and strategic planning also. Shame. Would have been nice for both companies to have survived and given the PC world more healthy competition over these years.
@@dna9838 wasn't the A3000 release in 1989? Otherwwise the Amiga 500 tech was 83/79 😉
Loved OS2 back in the day but not paying for it in 2024, there are too many better options for much less if not free.
How can an Amiga without AGA chipset even be considered to be in the top list of Amiga systems?
What about the year 2000 type problem for the amiga computers? I'd like to get one again but how is this addressed?
Yapping stops at 0:48 You're welcome.
Seems to have a more sensible keyboard layout than the A500...i have amiga500s and find the numeric keypad section rather redundant....seen one of these on ebay and am quite tempted.
Ahhhh. When you purchased software and owned it. Now we have to rent it.
*P A D D L E S !*
So cool! Based on this review, I'm gonna order one of these. (So there you go, tell Atari that it generated a sale.) I played Pong in Sears in the 1970s and spent a lot of $$ in arcades playing Breakout, Centipede, and the like. I competed in the Atari 2600 Asteroids contest (and ended up with a miserable score!) in the late 1970s or earl 1980s. I cut my teeth cloning Breakout on the IBM PC my first year in college, and never looked back. As a female student with a talent for coding, I ended up a freelance computer game programmer for the world's first computer games for girls company. Business application programming work after graduation wasn't nearly as fun, and the fancy graphics of today's computer games leave too little room for my imagination. (My 21st century gaming claim to fame is owning an iPad I can't ever connect to the net ever again, because it's got an old version of Bejeweled on it that I can literally spend an entire international flight playing, without noticing time passing.) So, LOL, I think I'm in the target market for this.
I think Commodore could have been as successful as Apple as there was still a lot of latent support for the brand in the 90s. It just needed the right product, much like the iMac and OSX was for Apple. It’s a real shame it folded. I gave up on my computer programming path after the Commodore 128, which I rarely booted into anything other than Commodore 64 mode (having first started with a ZX81, Vic-20, C64). The Amiga era sort of passed me by, as they were too expensive. But I was aware of them and would have loved one at the time. When I returned to computers in the early 90s, they were all ugly 286s made by uninspiring brands I’d never heard. All running Windows 3.1, with 2 digit LEDs on the front (still have no idea what those were for), Turbo buttons and no out of the box way to program it. I didn’t really get the appeal. But got my first Mac back then (LC475) and never looked back.
ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT! Wow. Definitely the best time to be an Amiga (and Atari ST) FAN these days? :)