Quote Originally Posted by Jun aka Pekto View Post
Actually, Apple already had the Macintosh and the Apple II. The Mac had a very nice spiffy desktop GUI along with great graphics and sound. The Amiga was for the poor, broke (young) dudes like myself. I got started with the Amiga prior to the NewTek Video Toaster. Workbench 1.x sucked. Non-interlaced was limited to 320x200 and 320x400. The signal was stable. But, there were also visible scan lines which were common with low-res. 640x400 was the highest res and had an interlaced signal which induced a migraine within a minute. Terrible.

The Newtek I knew back then made digitizers (flatbed scanners weren't popular back then). I had the NewTek digitizer which cost $99. Way cheaper than scanners which cost hundreds of $$$.

It was like the golden age of personal computing back then. MS-DOS PC, Mac, Apple II, Commodore 64/128/Amiga, Atari XL/ST.... Good times.

Speaking of NewTek......

I remember the NewTek Demoreel 1 from 1987. It's the more amazing because it ran off two floppy discs.
Good times indeed. Yes, I'm fully aware that Apple and the Macintosh was already there during that time, but growing up, the Amiga seems to be the more popular go-to solution for pro and broadcast video production. And if you factor in the cost, it does make a lot of sense why that is.

So at that time, IMO, the Amiga was indeed what the Mac was a few years ago... a computer for creators and pros.