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Amiga vs. Atari ST: A rivalry that defined 16-bit home computing (slicker.me)

submitted 5 months ago by monica_b1998@lemmy.world to c/retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org

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[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 3 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Team Amiga all the way!

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sad that us Americans never really got to enjoy either. Amiga certainly had a presence. But compared to the IBM PC clones their penetration was low. So many fun and unique computer systems throughout Europe. Compared to boring old IBM PC.

[–] Almacca@aussie.zone 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I was living in Tasmania when they were the in thing. We were definitely more influenced by British culture than American back then. I was a regular reader of several UK Amiga magazines at the time. Amiga games were far superior to NES games imo, and PC games were still only 16 colour.

[–] Eldritch@piefed.world 2 points 5 months ago

Yeah actually for a while in the 90's Amiga was headquartered around here. Always wanted one. But by the time I had money for such a thing the market had moved on. Definitely watching with interest what Chris/Perry and the crew are doing with the commodore at the moment.

[–] monica_b1998@lemmy.world 3 points 5 months ago

Looks like the rivalry is still alive