Shame the Tatung Einstein failed to make mass popularity - It was at least a decade ahead of the rest, imagine the Amiga with many orders of magnitude performance and functionality.

​@@dennis8196 "many orders of magnitude of performance" Over the Amiga? Trolling? The Einstein used a Z80A at 4MHz, 256x192 resolution, AY sound, and 3" floppy, all very similar to the Amstrad CPC 664 or 6128. Actually it was very like the spec of the MSX machines... plus the FDD. The Einstein 256 was similar to the MSX2 standard. You can see that by just looking at the games available. The 16 bit 68000 based Atari ST was a better choice by 1985, and the Amiga whilst a tad expensive (until the A500) was much better than the Einstein. What you could do on the 8 bit Z80 based Einstein, was run CP/M business software, or run some games that either looked like they'd been written for the MSX (hardware sprites and AY sound), or were more like straight ports from the 48K ZX Spectrum, which had the same Z80A CPU (clocked 10% slower), and 256x192 resolution.

Yep, and Commodore repaired all of Amstrad shite on the side.

and Sinclair.

amiga sux

I think his reply would be something along the lines of 'oh piss off!'

He would probably say your fired even tho you didn't work for him

Aftersales would be a premium rate phoneline, with option 5 for refunds which is 3 days hold music to be answered by a blundering idiot who talks jibberish make you quit trying.

@@SuperOldShows He comes across as a bit of a Willy wonka, no trade in 😣

"No income tax, no VAT, No money back, no guarantee..."

Incredibly lack of hype and bullshit coming from the manufacturers too. Except maybe some of the claims about compatibility and definitely Alan Sugar talking about dot matrix printers lol

false

@Kilo ByteInflation adjusted, £399 of 1985 is £1,218 today. The average month's worth of wages. For me personally, that's holiday money lol.

Still got Amstrad 6128 and german copy Schneider 6128

Exactly the same one.

@@vhsvideovault That's what I thought, the name reminded me straight away, still can't understand how the BBC got him mixed up with a African dude coming for a job interview 🤔

@@sovietonion72 A production assistant came out, asked him if he was Guy, and was he there for the interview, when he said yes, just brought him in to the studio. The PA wouldn't have any idea what Guy Kewney looks like.

@@vhsvideovault Ok thanks I get it.

No, but they created ABasiC which came with the first few Amigas, and AmigaDOS which is the command line interface and literally the disk operating system. Commdodore replaced a lot of Metacomco's work by AmigaDOS / OS 2.0 in 1990. Metcomco's AmigaDOS was largely based on BCPL code which was eventually converted into C more or less entirely by 1990. Metacomco picked up the pieces when the CAOS project well, ended up in chaos I think in 1984... (CAOS - Commodore Amiga Operating System) - if you google TripOS which was Metacomco's 68000 based DOS and then compare it to AmigaDOS, that is what Metacomco ported. Amiga Workbench itself (the icons etc) is a bit hard to trace who did that but the graphical user interface was called Intuition (you see it in the Workbench screen in this video, only early versions did this) and was created by RJ Mical, who came to Amiga from Williams, and went on to work with Dave Needle on the Lynx and 3DO.

There is an interview with Dr. Tim King about what he did. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ptNdpt2m17OZho0.html

Quite justifiably! They were ridiculous assertions! The CPC 464, 664 and 6128 were compatible with each other!

If he did she will probably claim a morale refund through the me too movement any day now.

He's still a complete tosser

Lol... "That amstrad guy"

@@FunkySpunkyJunky lord sugar is barely known abroad...

Thats the 80s! Even kids then shaved...