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Amiga Power To The People

By Kieron Gillen on April 24th, 2008.

Ultrowin, indeed.
[Doing some invoicing, I find a reference to the following. It was commissioned as part of a larger retro feature for PC Gamer which never quite came together, but stands alone well enough to lob it up here with a few tweaks. Because there's more to "PC" than IBM's descendants...]

I didn’t have a PC when I was a teenager, in the early nineties. If you’re reading this today, and are a Brit, in all probability you didn’t either. You wouldn’t have been able to afford it. Any PC whatsoever was over a grand, without even considering fifteen year’s inflation.

You’d have owned an Amiga. You’d have loved it.
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