GG>I think all and all the Commodore (both C-64 and Amiga) were decent   
   computers.   
      
   GG>I have a few.  :)   
       The thing about the Amiga is, there was different modals.  I   
   remember folks that where big fans of the Amiga's often touted the   
   Amiga's features.  Don't get me wrong, even the cheapest Amiga's was   
   good for what it could do and all, but They'd brag about the way the   
   high end Amiga's could do Video Editing and make comercials and all,   
   then in the same sentence say you could pick up an Amiga for (and then   
   quote the price of the low-end Amiga's) in the same sentence...  When   
   mentioning the low end Amiga's that where in the price range they   
   quoted, they'd say "Oh no, those Amiga's are junk, I don't consider them   
   an Amiga!"  I didn't know as much about the Amiga's as I did on the   
   Commodores.  Learning Assembly Language from a book a friend let me   
   borrow helped a lot!  Later picking up several Machine Language Monitors   
   and Assemblers made even better.  I loved Fast Assembler.  You write   
   your program in Basic, like:   
      
     10 FOR T = 1 TO 3   
     20 IF T = 3 THEN ORG 2048,1,8,"0:myprog,P"   
     30 LDA #0   
     40 STA 53280   
     50 RTS   
     60 NEXT T   
      
   It'd do a 3-pass assembly and allow you to even embed eg. the 10 SYS +   
   address fairly easy that way... Kinda like the data commands, which was   
   why I loved Fast Assembler!  You could write programs that looked like   
   you compiled it in Basic Compilers, or write some really funky code...   
   Eg.   
      
   10 SYS 2060   
      (ml code stored here)   
   20 SYS 2080   
      (ml code stored here)   
   30 PRINT "Bye Bye!"   
   40 END   
      
   And have the program look like the above somewhat....   
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