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by hota_mazi 1026 days ago
I was a big Amiga fan back then, and I think for a long time, it was a superior machine to pretty much anything else (preemptive multitasking, multi chips, great graphics and sound, etc...).

In 1995, I booted Windows 95 for the first time and as soon as I saw it, I immediately thought "That's it, game over for the Amiga. Windows has won".

It looked gorgeous, was reasonably fast, featured preemptive multitasking (10 years after the Amiga...).

I sold my Amiga in the months that followed, with much sadness.

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Game over for the Amiga happened in 1994 when Commodore went bankrupt.

Quite a few Amiga owners didn't switch away until Windows XP came out.