The legendary Amiga is 30 years old

No love for the legendary Atari ST's 30th birthday last month??? ;-)

My school system still uses an Amiga at a central location to control the heating and cooling for about 20 of their schools.

http://woodtv.com/2015/06/11/1980s-comp...ps-heat-and-ac/

The interesting thing, from what I remember is most all of the key developers that build that Atari 400/800 and the later 520/1040 models, most left Atari and jumped over to Commodore to work on the Amiga. Open up the Amiga and look at the signatures in the case, many if not most are ex-Atari developers.

Might be me but I still have a fondness for those old computers, still think many of the best games (arcade style) back then were way better then the games of today. While they may not have the super flashy hi-res graphics of today, the game play was way better. I for one would love to get an Atari 800 and play some of the old games if they ever re-released them. Sure you can get most of the games on emulators, but they just don't play the same.

Originally posted by SomeBozo:

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The interesting thing, from what I remember is most all of the key developers that build that Atari 400/800 and the later 520/1040 models, most left Atari and jumped over to Commodore to work on the Amiga. Open up the Amiga and look at the signatures in the case, many if not most are ex-Atari developers.

Might be me but I still have a fondness for those old computers, still think many of the best games (arcade style) back then were way better then the games of today. While they may not have the super flashy hi-res graphics of today, the game play was way better. I for one would love to get an Atari 800 and play some of the old games if they ever re-released them. Sure you can get most of the games on emulators, but they just don't play the same.

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