[committee] Fwd: [ucc] Free to good home: Amiga 1000

[Andrew Williams]

Luke Williams wrote:
> 
> Use it for what? My main concern is that by today's standards it, well,
> sucks. I'm not sure whether 512KB of RAM is a typo or not, but computers
> these days have up to 512 MEGAbytes of RAM - a big difference if you ask
> me!
> 
> The CPU also leaves a lot to be desired - who ever heard of counting CPU
> velocity in MHZ? For a computer to be worth it these days it should be
> at least counted in GHZ, like the Pentium 4 processor or the AMD ATHLON.

I'd hope this was trolling, but I guess it probably isn't...

The Amiga was one of the best games platforms of all time - it was the 
first machine with a decent amount of grunt, including video and audio 
co-processors, and spawned a revolution in games, allowing entirely new 
genres of games.

What's more, this was at a time when a handful of really good people 
could write a great game, without hundreds of artists, dozens of 
programmers, reams of red tape, and corporate suits controlling 
everything. Gameplay came first, not marketing deals and stupid 
movie-tie-ins.

If there's nobody at UCC with more appreciation of old machines than 
this, let an old-guard who will appreciate it take the machine instead. 
I just wish I had the space for it... :-)

Andrew