"One month after Atari ST release the very awaited Commodore Amiga arrived. It made multitasking, had color, it used a mouse and icons. It was fast, had immense memory and it used high capacity diskettes. This it was really the personal computer that was waited two years ago that the world produced. 

    For 1500 dollars, Amiga was initially considered more as a professional machine than a domestic computer. This personal computer had a Motorola 68000 processor at 8 MHz, 256 KB of RAM of memory and three fabulous dedicated chips called Paula, Daphne and Agnus that accelerated the processing of the graphics and sound, leaving the main processor occupied with better things.

    Had a colored graphic interface, two years before Apple, and was it always capable of the multitasking but, with whole those colors, audio capacities and two doors for joystick, what destiny would fit to the Amiga? Guessed: in spite of having left some marks in the video production Amiga became the machine that all the games fans aspired.

    The price never went down as much as the one of Atari ST, but the two disputed the market of the entertainment hardly in the years that were proceeded." 

Personal Computer World nr.138 June 1998

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