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1989...AH!
A year in some ways unforgettable.
For others... to forget.
Anyway, aside from the irrelevant preamble, it was the year I joyfully purchased an A500.
I even installed a 512K expansion (Fast Ram) to stay technologically up-to-date.
To manage to connect it, I studied a bit of electronic engineering.
The Amiga was equipped with a Motorola 68000 CPU at 7.09 MHz, and a set of 3 chips: Agnus, Denise, and Paula.
For those times, both in graphics and sound, the A500 was revolutionary.
Loading Workbench 1.3 would install Multitasking, which anticipated both Windows and MacOS.
When the time came to write the text for an operating system error message, a Commodore programmer had the intuition to name it "Guru Meditation".
The term derived from a curious game that allowed developers to relax, balancing the difficulties of programming and crashes during the early phases of Amiga software development.
It was later changed to “Software Failure”.
The unexpected “Guru Meditation” occurred during an exhausting night session of “Dungeon Master”.
PUM!
Suddenly the screen went black, giving me a SHOCK!
Menacing red flashing borders with strange numbers and letters stood out on the screen of the old television.
My only alternative was to switch off the transformer, at near-light speed.
Guru returned... multiple times, although fortunately never irreparably.
The Amiga era is now obsolete, but never forgotten.
Now I go to meditate on the work's rating... maybe yes, or maybe not!
Who can know?
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