I bought an Amiga and spent far too much on accessories.
Pros for Amiga
- the obvious
Cons
- hideous and slow ui
- slow floppy
- lack of cheap C compiler
- complexity
The last, complexity, is the cause of the success and rapid demise.
Soonish after the Amiga was released, there were IBM compatibles with a huge community of hardware (graphics cards, hard disks), software (unix and unix-likes, gcc).
The main reason I bought an Amiga was for it's multitasking capabilities. However I could see that it's custom hardware would make the desired transition to an m68k process with MMU a big problem.
Pros for Amiga
- the obvious
Cons
- hideous and slow ui - slow floppy - lack of cheap C compiler - complexity
The last, complexity, is the cause of the success and rapid demise.
Soonish after the Amiga was released, there were IBM compatibles with a huge community of hardware (graphics cards, hard disks), software (unix and unix-likes, gcc).
The main reason I bought an Amiga was for it's multitasking capabilities. However I could see that it's custom hardware would make the desired transition to an m68k process with MMU a big problem.