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That was another of the issues that 3000+, and the new Paula + peripheral chips was pegged to resolve. 3000+ was meant to be enough of a step forward to buy ti

That was another of the issues that 3000+, and the new Paula + peripheral chips was pegged to resolve. 3000+ was meant to be enough of a step forward to buy time to release AAA. Those 3000+ chips were just about ready if I remember right. Cancelling AAA was an Ali cost decision, it would probably have been well received releasing AAA even late 90s. A4000 was a horrible low budget kludge as there was no money for anything 90/91 on.

rasz_pl 11y ago
No it wouldnt. Amiga was dead man walking due to culture of clueless management at Commodore. Tramiel took pride in not knowing a first thing about computers, he would be as happy selling cars or meat. His replacement was even worse, not to mention rest of the management. Besides world moved on, even cheaper Sega Megadrive was better, never mind PlayStation. Then came the revolution, 1997 was the year of real 3D accelerators, Voodoo/Riva 128, 1998 Voodoo2/tnt. Amiga still couldnt muster a doom clone running at 320x240 above 7 fps while PC saw Quake 2, Unreal, half-life, Tribes and Thief.
- anexprogrammer 11y ago
  Pretty much what I said about ali - he was a hatchet man. Gould making Medi Ali CEO in 90, or whenever it was, destroyed the company. Tramiel was generally disliked, but they did pretty well under him until he left. Engineering was decimated both in manpower and budget by Ali. Morale was wrecked too - lots who weren't pushed just left. I don't know how many were left in engineering, but it wasn't many. It was also Gould/Ali that destroyed the Unix deal with Sun. AAA was specced 10x or more faster than original chipset, and way overdue. It was meant to land 91/92 of course. I think the reason they looked at RISC 3D was also cost - budget to get AAA to silicon under Ali was never going to happen, so buy in something. It wasn't 3D so I've no idea how it'd compare with voodoo etc.

rasz_pl 11y ago

No it wouldnt. Amiga was dead man walking due to culture of clueless management at Commodore. Tramiel took pride in not knowing a first thing about computers, he would be as happy selling cars or meat. His replacement was even worse, not to mention rest of the management. Besides world moved on, even cheaper Sega Megadrive was better, never mind PlayStation. Then came the revolution, 1997 was the year of real 3D accelerators, Voodoo/Riva 128, 1998 Voodoo2/tnt. Amiga still couldnt muster a doom clone running at 320x240 above 7 fps while PC saw Quake 2, Unreal, half-life, Tribes and Thief.

anexprogrammer 11y ago
Pretty much what I said about ali - he was a hatchet man. Gould making Medi Ali CEO in 90, or whenever it was, destroyed the company. Tramiel was generally disliked, but they did pretty well under him until he left. Engineering was decimated both in manpower and budget by Ali. Morale was wrecked too - lots who weren't pushed just left. I don't know how many were left in engineering, but it wasn't many. It was also Gould/Ali that destroyed the Unix deal with Sun. AAA was specced 10x or more faster than original chipset, and way overdue. It was meant to land 91/92 of course. I think the reason they looked at RISC 3D was also cost - budget to get AAA to silicon under Ali was never going to happen, so buy in something. It wasn't 3D so I've no idea how it'd compare with voodoo etc.