Retrocomputing
In my post-adolescence and adolescence there were two computers that have marked my relationship with computers: the Commodore 64 and Amiga. Today they are remembered mainly for the fun aspect, but in reality are two computers that have marked a little 'history of the evolution of computing negl'anni 80.
The Commodore 64 was one of the first computer to enter the small office, equipped with 1 or 2 disk drives, floppy disks with 5 "and 1 / 4, used to manage files with customer master data and word processing.
The Commodore Amiga, however had a role a bit 'different: it certainly was an earthquake in the landscape of computing time when most PCs were based on the 8088 XT, 8-bit machines that could see up to 4 colors, which ran MS-DOS. Here instead get a computer with a processor with 16-bit internal architecture already at 32, backed by a number of chips for audio and graphics, can get to 4096 colors, with an operating system already thought graphic objects and totally!
Unfortunately, Commodore chose the easy way out, that is to push the game, rather than bringing the Amiga as heavily as a computer work: a deep breath of relief by all the major players in the x86 world! Despite this, the Amiga was able to carve out a slice of the business market, particularly for video applications, and even today, after more than 20 years, there are several private regional TV channels using the Amiga as a title. Many developers are dedicated to producing software freeware or shareware often to the point that in 1992, Urban Dominik Müller realized and put online the first FTP servers (maintained by an Amiga 3000UX) dedicated to the collection of this software was created so Aminet , a collection of free software in 1996 will exceed 30,000 files becoming the largest collection of freely available software available online.
If I could send you a thread of excitement in talking about the Amiga, perhaps you may want to read the story of the history of computers in a somewhat 'most comprehensive site amiga.it .
Until 1999 I was a moderate activist in the Amiga world: I had collaborated on the development of software for Fidonet networks (the Internet once was not so common), I was part of an association founded online translation software for Amiga ( ATO ) and I started to collect information on compatible hardware for Amiga with a project called Amiga Hardware Gallery . I have maintained links to this project, even if they are not updated for several more years, as well as my old site is still online but not updated.
For those wishing to experiment with Amiga, you can download an emulator rather comprehensive, built by Italian Software House, Cloanto , the product is known and can be downloaded from the homonymous AmigaForever site .
