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The Amiga doesn't seem to get a great deal of love here, I think that's mostly because there are a lot of Americans here and the Amiga never really took off in America.

I've also heard that a lot of Americans were pc dos junkies so here's a little comparison vid done by a guy I know to let you see what you were/are missing :)

http://fr.youtube.com/watch?v=cETl8PhUy_E

In Canada it was a sort of three way tie between DOS, the Amiga and the ST. Still plenty of people up here with Amigas and ST's sitting in closets or still hooked up. A lot of Amiga usergroups up here as well.

I bet I could find 2 Amiga 500's for every 386 still out there that works. :)

Ah well, your Canadians so you're ok! (in fact I've a mate who emigrated to Canada a little while back)
It's those pesky Americans that are to blame! ;)

Indeed. I hear those crazy buggers preferred the NES over the Sega Master as well. But I won't hold that against them. Bad taste in gaming comes in many forms ;)

That was a good vid. That was the first time i had seen the PC version of Barbarian, I didn't realize how crippled it was. :o

Aye, CGA only....absolutely hideous, and it came out the same year as the Amiga version..

And yes I heard that nasty rumour that they preferred the NES over the SMS as well.....
Don't tell me it was true??

:D

I was one of those PC-DOS junkies from way back when.  That is a great comparison video.  I do admit that I do not have any direct knowledge of the Amiga systems (except the CDTV and CD32 consoles).  I can't say that I remember Amiga computers being that well marketed back in the day in the US to be honest.  I am astounded by the difference of graphical/audio output in the video (the Amiga is obviously superior).

Damn, the video doesn't work when I tried. I'll have to try again tomorrow.
Living in Australia Commodore was all the rage and the Master System was a big fan favourite over the NES with Alex Kidd in Miracle World being loved by all which helped when it was built-in.

Just check out these screens of a childhood favourite of mine for my proof of Amiga vs PC
http://www.mobygames.com/game/disneys-duck-tales-the-quest-for-gold/screenshots

Ducktales on dos was bad enough as it was, but I had to play it on a very old pc, that made everything go in slow motion and only had a black/white screen. I still liked it though.

Hmm, video is working here still

oh and Duck Tales in featured in the video :)

Cool it works now......
My god... how did people play DOS games? The midis almost made my ears bleed  :'(

Commodore 64 all the way!

It may have been, but I didn't watch it all the way to the end. The point was made after 2 games, the rest was just extra.

I only ever played Duck Tales on the C64 but have fond memories of it.

It wouldn't of been much of a challenge to make an ad better than Microsoft's either sadly.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=EZvhPGXrg0g

I'll never understand how Commodore couldn't easily take the US market when their computers should practically sell them selves when compared like in that vid.

You know what the cruel irony of all this is?....
After the bankruptcy of Commodore, all their assets are seized and sold off to pay for their depts. The Commodore name I'm pretty sure has been brought and sold again a few times over since that tragic day, and now is used by a PC manufacturing company :(

The only market that Amiga's ruled here in the US was video editing.  Most local cable companies used them to host programming guides (some small ones may still use them!!)

As for me I own a couple of 500's, a 1200, a 2000HD, a 2000, and a 2500.  Then again I own a couple of Amstrad and Sinclair systems too so I am not a typical yankee ;)

The early models of Deep Space Nine were done on an Amiga 2000 using Lightwave. 8)

I guess I'm one of the lucky ones that had an Amiga back when. I had been a Commodore 128 user for a few years so the jump to Amiga seemed natural. I bought myself a 500 in 91 or 92 and used it all the way through college. It went through several upgrades during the 4 or 5 years I used it including ram and an HD sidecar. It still works and is still configured the same way I had it when I was actively using it. I've moved on to a 4000 recently, so I don't use the 500 anymore, but it will always be around.

I do remember it wasn't until some of the early CD ROM games came out for the PC that I started to take notice of what they were doing. But for anything else, the Amiga was the way to go. Tons of great games that I will still spend hours playing!

My first computer was in 1994 when I was 9. It was a Packard Bell 486 50Mhz system with 8MB memory. Our harddrive was 200 MB with 3.25" floppy and a 4x CD-ROM drive. Yeah, I was spoiled using AOL on my dads account.

Well, walking away from memory lane I really wish those computers of the 80's such as Commodore, Amiga, MAC or Atari. Just about the only machines I can find around here are x86 PCs from mid-late 90's. I only have 1 Amiga game and have yet to try it on an emulator as it's an expansion that requires the original (go figure).

As for comparisons there are just too many DOS/Win95 games I enjoy from then and now so if it were executed right on another platform then I'd be something to interest me.