Linkdump No 117

The Amiga turns 40 this week. I had an Amiga 500 as a kid, some time in the early 90s. And I remember being made fun of for having an Amiga, because PCs were supposedly so much cooler and better and whatnot. But the first time I visited a friend who had one of those amazing PCs and he proudly showed me his games with their EGA graphics colour palette and the PC speaker sounds I thought, are you kidding me? This is the thing you're going on and on about? Have you even seen an Amiga? I was truly underwhelmed by that. At the time it was released, and into the early 90s the Amiga was leaps and bounds ahead of the competition in terms of sound graphics, and the more I learn about the history of Commodore the more disappointed I am that the company went the way it did. They were far ahead of the competition at the time, and had things gone differently they could be where Apple is today. Unfortunately it wasn't meant to be, and Commodore turned into one of those companies that flourished for…