Comment by Zardoz84
10 days ago
Well... I recommend you to try an old Amiga 1200 . You will find a big surprise how this 20 Mhz machine it's highly responsive, and boots faster that any current machine with Windows 10/11. However, it would not look fancy to our current eyes.
Loading times from floppies wasn't even remotely quick.
That's why, back in the day, we bought hard drives. I still fondly remember my first 52MB hard drive, which consisted of a huge plastic enclosure the shape of the Amiga that attached to the expansion port off the side.
I had this one: https://www.jaruzel.com/blog/amiga-500--fun-with-storage. The official Commodore one was much uglier and, from memory, only 20MB.
Launching a game off a floppy was much faster than opening the bloatware that is steam and then downloading gigabytes of bloat.
> 20 Mhz machine
14 MHz !