Many/most computers of the day used off-the-shelf parts cobbled together in a way that let them achieve their end goal via brute force. Yes it did involve tradeoffs, but there was also some serious artistry involved in the circuit design. They made some pretty amazing, highly-optimized designs that did more with less silicon. I think saying that it 'didn't have special hardware' is a bit of a disservice to the original design team. What do you think the computing landscape in 2019 would have looked like if the Amiga and AmigaOS as a platform had survived? Would Macs be as popular with digital content creators as they are today? Would AAA games target Windows 7/8/10 by default or tilt more towards the Amiga? Could there have been an Amiga hardware-based game console? Might AmigaOS and Linux have had a symbiotic existence of sorts, with AmigOS co-existing with Linux on many enthusiast's Amigas, or even becoming compatible with each other over time? And who knows what the custom chips (ASICs? FPGAs?) of an Amiga in 2019 might have been capable of - Amiga could possibly have been the platform that makes nearly life-like games and VR/AR a reality, and given Nvidia and AMD's GPUs a run for their money. If Commodore and the Amiga had survived and thrived, there might have been four major desktop platforms in use today: Windows, OSX, AmigaOS and Linux. And after the Amiga - as well as the Atari ST, Archimedes and so on - died, everybody pretty much had to migrate to either the PC or Mac platforms. The Amiga was the multimedia beast of its time - you could create animated and still 2D or 3D graphics on it, compose sophisticated electronic music, develop 2D or 3D 16-Bit games, edit and process digital video (using Video Toaster), and of course, play some amazing games. It had a number of cleverly designed custom chips that gave the Amiga amazing graphics and sound capabilities far beyond the typical IBM/DOS PCs of its time.

It had a multitasking capable GUI-driven OS and a mouse.

Dryriver writes: The Amiga was a remarkable machine at the time it was released - 1985.

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