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Posted: Wed, 31st May 2017 09:09 Post subject: International Amiga Day - Today May 31st 201

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How quick the years pass as once again it is time to celebrate ' International Amiga Day ' which is held every 31st May in celebration of Jay Miner who, according to Gyorgy Dragon(RIP), was the father of the Amiga and today is his birthday! Celebrating 30 years of fun, it's time to celebrate all that is Amiga, from Amiga games to the Amiga hardware. The retro community want to keep the Commodore Amiga name alive and what better way to do that than an anniversary to the day dedicated to the great system. What an incredible line of retro computer systems from the A500 to the A4000, if you lived during that era of gaming then it was one of the greatest moments in our retro history.

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Posted: Wed, 31st May 2017 09:14 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

My 500 is rotting on the attic in parents house. I wonder if it still works. I need to go get it some day. "Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) "Have the courage to use your own understanding," is therefore the motto of the enlightenment."

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Posted: Wed, 31st May 2017 15:16 Post subject:	Quick Quote Quote

Even though I didn't even know much about the Amiga until the early 2000's (thanks to the Internet), I've grown to love the system through its games. When I got into PC gaming in the early 1990's, the Amiga was already dying and many developers were jumping ship to DOS gaming. I didn't realize this at the time, but the Amiga really offered a very similar experience to early 90's DOS gaming which I love - although the PC had way superior strategy games (the Amiga was a little lacking in that area).