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>>6245981
>The blitter was insufficient
If anything, it was overkill.
http://amigadev.elowar.com/read/ADCD_2.1/Hardware_Manual_guide/node0118.html
>>6246003
You could read 1571/etc disks with Amiga 5.25" drives connected to the external floppy port. You could also use the drives directly with a cable from the Amiga's parallel port.
Many of us had both C64 and Amiga.
>>6246062
When they released the A1000, the OS wasn't even ready, thus as you'd expect there was little third party software. They called 1.0 but quality wise it was pre-alpha and crashed a lot. 1.1 fixed most of it, released 2 months later and bundled with A1000s sold past that. Thanks to kickstart being in "WORM" back then (RAM with a write-protect latch after boot) and being loaded from a floppy on power up, this wasn't much of an issue for users. Software exploded after that.
>usable word processor
A lot were released in 1986.
This site has a bunch of interesting categories:
http://www.classicamiga.com/component/option,com_jreviews/Itemid,175/url,Software/Software/Office-Word-Processing_c224_m175/
Just be very aware that they do list the latest version of each program, rather than the first one, when considering the release dates listed.
>>6246063
Super cool.