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Not completely unheard of but I get your point :). Babylon 5's pilot's animations (and I believe opening credits) was rendered in 1993 on sixteen souped-up A2000s, each with 32 MB of RAM.

https://www.generationamiga.com/2020/08/30/how-24-commodore-...

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That's pretty cool. I know 32 megs was technically possible with the right boards, I just didn't know any normal person that had one. I had an A3000 with 5 megs (4 megs fast, 1 megs chip) and I thought it was bad ass for the time.

I had a CyberstormPPC with a 604e/200MHz and a 68060/50MHz, and 128MB of RAM onboard. There was also a DKB3128 with another 128MB of RAM.

“Big” Amigas weren’t common, but they definitely existed.

Oh, and I was a college student at the time.

CyberstormPPC was $1000 when it came out in 1997. Thats more than Pentium 200, good motherboard, case, sound card, graphics and 3Dfx accelerator. 128MB was $400-800 and not even top end systems shipped with that much.

I had moved on to Linux / x86 by that point.

Yes, but I didn’t want a Pentium 200. I wanted a fast Amiga.

That must've been an awesome machine. You were a god among Amigans!

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