Ok, Amigas are not dedicated game rigs. You can do 3d modeling, 2d graphics, video editing, music development, programing, etc etc etc. Console..... just play games. I am on irc at the moment on my amiga 3000 while listening to mod files and downloading files off of aminet all at the same time.
I agree. But if you only played games on the Amiga, what would it be?
It's certainly not a console in the strictest sense. It's dependent on the user.
But I'm still not apologizing for the word I chose.
Still a computer if all you use it for is twitter and facebook nowadays? or is it a social media delivery device?
These days, it's a propaganda delivery device if you don't block a lot of shit.
The Amiga was used by creative people and professional studios.
It was most famous by the consumer market as a gaming machine, that's what made its success, but piracy and lack of serious management from Commodore killed it.
It's pretty apparent you had more experience with them than I ever did. (I've literally never messed with an Amiga. I wanted to.) After a couple years of connecting the aforementioned TRS-80 to a B/W TV and teaching myself TI BASIC, I got an Atari 2600. And since all I wanted to do back then was play games, I went down the console path. That didn't change until about '98 when I bought a Pentium 1 - 100 mHz
I'm going to guess that the Amiga was used to make a portion of the media that interested me the most, back in the 80s. (I was born in '80)
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