Heads up on an amiga book

[Bosbeetle]

I was browsing through the 'books et.al.' section of science of this week and this caught my eye. I wanted to give you guys a heads up.


Its a book about the amiga and how it was ahead of its time.


If this is considered spam please remove it.

 

[craigix]

*buys*

 

[NoeleyC]

bought the Kindle version just there, it'll make interesting reading for sure! (oddly $26.95 for the Nook edition, $17.50 for the Kindle, ebook pricings really make no sense at all!)

 

[gruso]

Cool, thanks for the link.


I assume most Amiga fans have seen this:


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LAzSZKJ3o0&feature=gv (42min).


So unapologetically nerdy, that lot. Some great stories.

 

[LineOf7s]

Bought and downloaded onto both Kindle and Android phone. Read the Commodore one, so this is a no-brainer.


Thanks for the heads-up.

 

[gunrock]

This looks great. I'll buy the hardcover, seems like a bargain compared to an e-book edition.

 

[BaDToaD]

"crashes often accompanied multitasking attempts" This doesn't remind me of my Amiga. Replace often with occasionaly and that's nearer the truth. I wonder if it mentions that after a crash you could be back in your application within a minute having rebooted the Amiga and restarted the application.


Many years ago pre my acelerated Amiga 1200 and hard drive days, I took my Amiga 500 into work because we were having issues with our PC dial up. They laughed when they saw my Amiga 500. After I'd used my Amiga and modem to troubleshoot the fact their modem was broken I bet them I could start Amiga workbench from floppy disk and connect to the builiten board they used before the PC had finished loading Windows. Doubtless to say I won the bet. They were gobsmacked.


The Amiga was truly ahead of it's time.

 

[erico]

I wonder about the fall of commodore, didn´t read the book so I´m curious as to what they blame for the fall.


I remember before they went bankrupt, there was a global shortage of 020 and 030 processors and a few extra chips, which led to people wanting to buy and no products to sell.


I got an amiga 4000 at this time, luckly somehow.


So I always wondered if the ´invisible´ industry of microchips played a role here. (am I too paranoid? )

 

[gunrock]

Got this book for my birthday, last week. Had a bit of a read, it's well written and interesting (from the prologue and first chapter, so far). I disagree with some points made, but so far, fairly well researched and well written.

 

[Wrath Of Khan]

I thought it looked like a bit of a cash in so i avoided it.i might have been wrong.Might buy it.The amiga story is supposed to be out this year too.It's the follow up to commodore a company on the edge.