Buying a Commodore Amiga 30 years later, just to play games

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@beschizza

The low-end 512Kb Amigas were invariably put to use as game consoles, booting right into games, the code given bare-metal access. But it seems fancier models more or less obliged users to launch games from the OS and its GUI, Workbench. And there even 2Mb wasn’t enough.

As a teenager in the 90s I would see Amiga magazines on the rack at the local bookstore. I always thought the graphics looked very good, but deep down I knew that there was something seriously weird about them.