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[pasithea]

I was looking for some stuff about Will (my former Maya instructor) and stumbled across a short interview with him about 4 minutes into this Amiga3000 promotional video from 1988.

http://www.archive.org/details/amiga3000

I left the video running while I was doing other stuff just because the noise was entertaining.

Anyhow. I make fun of Amiga fanboys a lot. The ones who still believe the Amiga is going to make a comeback at this point sound very similar to the 'The South Will Rise Again' sorts...

But there's a big difference between the South and the Amiga. The Amiga really was pretty awesome. I know what my computer was capable of in 1988 and the Amiga quite frankly blew it away.

Perhaps the most interesting thing I saw that I was unaware of is at about 14 minutes into the video.

It was freakin' Flash before Flash existed. Graphical OO programming where you could just double-click an object and edit code in it. YOu could create buttons and hot areas and mix in audio, video, and animation. Pretty darn cool. If only they'd been able to do something with it instead of MacroMedia.

Really neat stuff. You might watch this just for the fun history lesson.

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[tilton.livejournal.com]

Amen! I was an Amiga 500 user from 1988 to 1992, I loved that thing. Sure it's dead, and I hope folks would have moved on by now, but back then it was way ahead of things. It brings back tons of fond memories.