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AmigaSource.com - AMIGA STORIES
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Stories and tales about the Amiga and the related scene
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Everyone knows the commodore 64, or c64, or "bread box", of course. the single most sold unit in computer history, to this day. The "sequel" computer by the commodore company might be lesser known, sadly. the commodore amiga is a bit of a glitch in the timeline of Computers. When it was engineered in the 80s, it was way ahead of its competition. 4096 colors at once, build-in parallax scrolling, a GUI that looked (and worked) better than microsoft windows, multimedia abilities... |
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In 1993, in Baghdad, I built a game called Babylonian Twins on an Amiga 500: 512KB of RAM, no hard drive, plugged into a TV. I was an engineering student in my twenties. Pure 68000 assembly, every sprite and every scanline by hand. Murtadha Salman drew the art and Mahir AlSalman composed the music. We were under sanctions. No internet, no game development resources, just one copy of the Amiga Hardware Reference Manual, which I used to program the hardware directly, and electricity a few hours a day. The constant floppy disk swapping (because of the small memory) and the 50°C summers killed my disk drive three times. |
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