• Buffalox@lemmy.world
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    7 days ago

    Stop whining, in 1985 I paid $400 for 256 kilobyte RAM for my Amiga 1000, AND I WAS HAPPY!
    You kids nowadays are spoiled, with 100,000 times more RAM if you have an average build with 16 GB RAM and 8 GB VRAM.
    But the Amiga was still more fun than modern computers.

    Is it me? Or is it the kids that are wrong?
    Hmmm… 🤔 …
    It must be the kids. 😋

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      7 days ago

      Is it me? Or is it the kids that are wrong?

      Nah, you’re both right. When that Amiga was out, if you wanted entertainment, you have to leave the house, go to a movie, god ~85, you might not even have had a VCR.

      That Amiga was the greatest, most useful and entertaining thing on the market.

      Now a days, a shitty c-rate cellphone can bring you every movie, tv show, song, idiot with a camera that you’d ever want to experience.

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      7 days ago

      I literally ran into this guy while on a hike just last week. He made it a point to tell me that people with degrees don’t know shit too. Interesting character.

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        7 days ago

        In their special area they generally do, outside that they are probably like most people with an IQ above 100.

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        7 days ago

        Wow that’s pretty cool, I thought M68k series ended with 68060!
        I still have an old Amiga 500 that my wife bought for me many years ago, because I never shut up about how superior Amiga was back in the day, and how amazing it was to program M68k assembly direct to hardware on it.

        The highest power Amiga I ever had was a 68030 expansion card to an Amiga 2000. Then I stupidly switched to PC, because that was the future. But the PC killed my interest in programming, because it’s only semi open, not open like the Amiga was.