I loved my Amiga's back in the day. Started with a used Amiga 1000, then a new Amiga 500, then to the Amiga 1200. Last but not least, an Amiga 4000.
A cool little side note. Newtek and the Video Toaster started out in Topeka Kansas, where I'm at. Not sure where they are now but they are behind Lightwave 3D these days. A girl I dated maybe 10 years ago bought Tim Jenison's old house where rumor has it he coded Digipaint and or worked on the early hardware for the Video Toaster. I will say the garage in back of the house had several electrical outlets and phone lines added in as well as from what I remember, work benches. Not exactly Alexander Graham Bell Laboratory, but very cool nonetheless.
There was nothing ever like the Amiga and if you were young enough to own one during it's heyday then you will know exactly what I am talking about. I won;'t go into the specs now but it was years ahead of the PC.
The old place on High St.? I worked at NewTek, and lived in that house for a few years. Tim & family had already moved out by the time Toaster got going, but I remember when he got his first A1000 and called me over to that garage. He actually had a DigiView prototype working about a week after he got the Amiga...
That garage was a special place for a kid just getting into computers. Just before the Amiga arrived, I remember when Tim was coding CocoMax for the Tandy Color Computer...that was a pixel perfect clone of Mac Paint, that really blew people away.
But DigiPaint...Tim didn't write that. We hired a guy from Ohio who had come up with the first HAM paint program, but that's a whole other story...
Yes exactly. Right there on the north west corner of High.
When my, at the time girlfriend bought that house and she got me to come over to check out the house and garage I was a little surprised at how the garage had been somewhat converted. What was really shocking was the story the Realtor had told her about the history of the former owner and the story behind the garage. I was over my Amiga days by then but I knew Newtek very well as they used the Amiga and they were all gods to me basically.
I used to know one or two of the Newtek guys. One guy, and his name escapes me used to be the tech guy at Thoroughbred Computers, oh I just remembered his name, Chuck! Last I heard he was having health issues but had lost a lot of weight. Very cool guy from what I remember. But yeah, very fond memories.
When I think about the Amiga and everything I could do with it it just really warms my soul. I doubt I will ever in my life time have that kind of experience again as far as computers go. About the best example I can give non-Amiga owners is, imagine where your PC will be in terms of performance and features 5 years from now. That's where we were back in the day and we knew it.
Had the Amiga brand not been mismanaged, we very well could all be using Amiga iPhone 4's right now and or running Amiga OS Ultimate 7 64bit. Not even kidding.
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This is very cool news indeed.
I loved my Amiga's back in the day. Started with a used Amiga 1000, then a new Amiga 500, then to the Amiga 1200. Last but not least, an Amiga 4000.
A cool little side note. Newtek and the Video Toaster started out in Topeka Kansas, where I'm at. Not sure where they are now but they are behind Lightwave 3D these days. A girl I dated maybe 10 years ago bought Tim Jenison's old house where rumor has it he coded Digipaint and or worked on the early hardware for the Video Toaster. I will say the garage in back of the house had several electrical outlets and phone lines added in as well as from what I remember, work benches. Not exactly Alexander Graham Bell Laboratory, but very cool nonetheless.
There was nothing ever like the Amiga and if you were young enough to own one during it's heyday then you will know exactly what I am talking about. I won;'t go into the specs now but it was years ahead of the PC.
@rthefley
The old place on High St.? I worked at NewTek, and lived in that house for a few years. Tim & family had already moved out by the time Toaster got going, but I remember when he got his first A1000 and called me over to that garage. He actually had a DigiView prototype working about a week after he got the Amiga...
That garage was a special place for a kid just getting into computers. Just before the Amiga arrived, I remember when Tim was coding CocoMax for the Tandy Color Computer...that was a pixel perfect clone of Mac Paint, that really blew people away.
But DigiPaint...Tim didn't write that. We hired a guy from Ohio who had come up with the first HAM paint program, but that's a whole other story...
@Bill Door
Yes exactly. Right there on the north west corner of High.
When my, at the time girlfriend bought that house and she got me to come over to check out the house and garage I was a little surprised at how the garage had been somewhat converted. What was really shocking was the story the Realtor had told her about the history of the former owner and the story behind the garage. I was over my Amiga days by then but I knew Newtek very well as they used the Amiga and they were all gods to me basically.
I used to know one or two of the Newtek guys. One guy, and his name escapes me used to be the tech guy at Thoroughbred Computers, oh I just remembered his name, Chuck! Last I heard he was having health issues but had lost a lot of weight. Very cool guy from what I remember. But yeah, very fond memories.
When I think about the Amiga and everything I could do with it it just really warms my soul. I doubt I will ever in my life time have that kind of experience again as far as computers go. About the best example I can give non-Amiga owners is, imagine where your PC will be in terms of performance and features 5 years from now. That's where we were back in the day and we knew it.
Had the Amiga brand not been mismanaged, we very well could all be using Amiga iPhone 4's right now and or running Amiga OS Ultimate 7 64bit. Not even kidding.