This was a massive step up from the Amiga 1000 because the OS was on a ROM and you no longer had to load it off a floppy every time you booted.
Seeing and playing this in '91, yeah, it was futurism up close.
My dream machine back then.
It never happened; we jumped from C64 to 386.
Same, a Vic20 straight to IBM XT. Gutted.
At least a friend had one for 3-player IK tournaments, and North and South battles.
That’s the first computer I grew up on. Taught me English as well, mainly through adventure games like Space quest & King’s quest.
Glad I got to grow up with that, I don’t really envy young people in that regard.
That’s not cassette futurism. That’s just cassette.
Literally, no. Cassettes were still around, yes, but the next era of technology had already arrived. Earlier home computers used audio cassettes for data storage, but Amiga never did. It was part of the post-cassette technological wave. The hard drive inside that expansion is even the same mechanism and form-factor as spinning disks used today, and the SCSI command set is still used in SAS drives.
Posting it here makes sense from an aesthetic POV, since the case design fits reflects the cassette futurism look, before all computers turned black.
Cassette Futurism is just name of genre like Steampunk, Cyberpunk or Dieselpunk
You’re telling me that a picture of a regular steam locomotive fits into Steampunk, or that a regular 18-wheeler fits into Dieselpunk, and I disagree.
This ad for a regular technological device of the cassette era does not fit into cassette futurism.
Well, There’s no true defenition of cassette futurism or IDK ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. I think any tech or media which resembles or from 70s or 80s fit this community. Feel free to post what you think is though.
That external hard drive had a whopping 20 megabytes of storage. I can still remember the sound or it spinning up…
Reminds me of happy Commodore 64 childhood memories ❤️
Commodore Amiga 500
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Fully compatible with Amiga 500I wonder what they meant
Possibly they meant the separately purchased monitor was compatible with base unit.
Likely this. Some monitors that would work on the Ami wouldn’t work in all it’s modes. This did. I had the 1084S which added stereo speakers I think.
This is correct. Those separate square bullet points are just for the monitor.
Isn’t very clear though. So it does read like the Amiga 500 is fully compatible with the Amiga 500…
Was there a non-Commordore version?
There were a lot of non-Commodore monitors marketed alongside the Amiga. This isn’t one of them.
