09 May 2020, 20:49 | #1 |
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Beige is boring!
Beige is super boring and this has always been the case. Why weren’t all Amigas Piano black. The CDTV and CD32 got this one right.
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09 May 2020, 20:54 | #2 |
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Yep, even when I was a kid I spent ages coming up with other colour schemes
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09 May 2020, 21:12 | #3 |
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Black is sad. I would prefer sky blue with dark blue keys.
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09 May 2020, 21:18 | #4 |
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@Pyromania, please tell me what exactly this thread has to do with the Amiga scene?
Look at the description under the Amiga scene i.e. "Comment and discuss about the latest news, rumours..." To be honest; you are by far the worst offender and constantly post anything under the Amiga scene section. I'm always having to move elsewhere... Please; going forward, when creating threads think about where the best place is that it should go. |
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Yes it's just a name change, but "Amiga Scene", "Retrogaming General Discussion" and "General Amiga Discussion" would fit just about everything you'd want that isn't part of a specific subforum. |
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10 May 2020, 00:01 | #7 |
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When the Amiga 1000 came out its beige was still quite nice and stylish.
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10 May 2020, 00:52 | #9 |
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This article is enlightening: https://retrocomputing.stackexchange...ack-in-the-day
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10 May 2020, 03:56 | #10 |
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"You don't appreciate what you've got until you lose it." All my modern computers and its accessories are black. I think the Amiga is now even more beautiful.
Erm.. I read that stackexchange page on "why were computers beige" -- what a load of nonsense. It was just the style of the time, just as black is now. No rhyme or reason. And this painting of Steve Jobs as some kind of God of computing is getting absurd. |
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They're just people, quite knowledgeable but also not infaillible, and often biased. Statements such as
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10 May 2020, 13:56 | #13 |
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I like the original colour of the Amiga, it just hard to keep it that colour
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10 May 2020, 15:52 | #15 |
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And it's not like everything was actually beige back then, it's just that all the photos have faded to that color. For example, Space:1999 clearly could not have been as depressingly beige as this picture implies, right?!?
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10 May 2020, 16:17 | #16 |
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Nothing wrong with beige anyway. If it's good enough for Nostromo then it's good enough for me.
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10 May 2020, 16:52 | #17 |
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So computers were beige for many years because they were trying to copy Space 1999. I just knew there was a reason.
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10 May 2020, 17:06 | #18 |
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Nuclear powerplant operators seem to like beige too:
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That's a lot of console to Retr0bright.
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Quite simply actually: Cost Beige is the cheapest; meaning, more profit. The CDTV was really Black, because it was aiming to fit in with those Hi-Fi Component Racks. They where pretty much all black. The CD32 was actually a cheap Black (dark grey), but it was chosen to "fight the SEGA MEGA-CD". Now you know; hope you are not disappointed. I like my Amiga in beige |
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