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Amiga computers are expensive these days, you are better off with an Amiga Emulator like Amiga Forever.

I remember the Amiga had the checkered beach ball bouncing demo and others copied it, then on the Amiga they opened up several copies of the demo all multitasking and bouncing at the same time.

The only downside of the Amiga was the dreaded Guru Meditation Errors when memory went corrupt or something. IIRC AmigaDOS/Workbench had no protected memory features.



> IIRC AmigaDOS/Workbench had no protected memory features.

This was a limitation of the original MC68k CPU architecture. Though the Amiga operating system was indeed designed to leverage a single address space throughout, which made it significantly harder to retrofit memory protection after the fact.




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