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we should all by on amigas right now, commodore just sucked at marketing.

KozmoNau7 9y ago
The Amiga architecture was very limited in regards to 3D (or pseudo-3D), so was pretty much left in the dust when Doom came out. Very awesome at 2D, though.
- jacobush 9y ago
  Doom was not very 3D, it just could address 1 byte = 1 pixel on VGA. That would have been trivial to fix in the mythical AAA chipset, which was scrapped, then replaced years later with the slightly better AGA chipset in the A4000 computer. Commodore was in a (brief) position to destroy Apple and ridicule IBM, but the execs preferred to "Toys-R-Us"-it and take the bonuses.
  - jacobush 9y ago
    AGA being slightly better than the original chipset, not slightly better than AAA, of course.
  - DerekL 9y ago
    You've identified a major reason the Amiga failed. The chipset was originally great, but Commodore should have spent the money to keep up with Moore's Law. Something like AGA should have arrived in 1988, not 1992, and with a blitter four times the power as OCS, not just twice.
- tombert 9y ago
  I feel that Alien Breed 3D was pretty ok; it didn't perform great but it was certainly playable. Weren't there a fair number of Doom-clones on the system?
  - boomlinde 9y ago
    Definitely, but too little, too late. Alien Breed 3D is barely playable without an accelerator. IMO Gloom ran fine without an accelerator but is a rather boring game compared to Doom, just like AB3D.
- Keyframe 9y ago
  Yes, but they could've caught up if they weren't releasing products which made no sense and ate in each other's lunch. They went bust, or were good as dead, before Doom made final blow to it.
gaius 9y ago
Or Acorn Archimedes.
- jacobush 9y ago
  Very similar except Amigas had major market adoption as well as tech and cultural great points. But tech wise, Archimedes was a beast.
  - romwell 9y ago
    Well, Archimedes didn't really go away, being the first real ARM-based computing device. The legacy is in everyone's pocket.
- pjmlp 9y ago
  Unfortunately they were an UK phenomenon. I could see Amigas and Ataris everywhere, back in Portugal, while Archimedes were only known to me thanks to Computer Shopper UK edition, Alternative Platforms sections.

The Amiga architecture was very limited in regards to 3D (or pseudo-3D), so was pretty much left in the dust when Doom came out. Very awesome at 2D, though.

jacobush 9y ago
Doom was not very 3D, it just could address 1 byte = 1 pixel on VGA. That would have been trivial to fix in the mythical AAA chipset, which was scrapped, then replaced years later with the slightly better AGA chipset in the A4000 computer. Commodore was in a (brief) position to destroy Apple and ridicule IBM, but the execs preferred to "Toys-R-Us"-it and take the bonuses.
- jacobush 9y ago
  AGA being slightly better than the original chipset, not slightly better than AAA, of course.
- DerekL 9y ago
  You've identified a major reason the Amiga failed. The chipset was originally great, but Commodore should have spent the money to keep up with Moore's Law. Something like AGA should have arrived in 1988, not 1992, and with a blitter four times the power as OCS, not just twice.
tombert 9y ago
I feel that Alien Breed 3D was pretty ok; it didn't perform great but it was certainly playable. Weren't there a fair number of Doom-clones on the system?
- boomlinde 9y ago
  Definitely, but too little, too late. Alien Breed 3D is barely playable without an accelerator. IMO Gloom ran fine without an accelerator but is a rather boring game compared to Doom, just like AB3D.
Keyframe 9y ago
Yes, but they could've caught up if they weren't releasing products which made no sense and ate in each other's lunch. They went bust, or were good as dead, before Doom made final blow to it.

gaius 9y ago

Or Acorn Archimedes.

jacobush 9y ago
Very similar except Amigas had major market adoption as well as tech and cultural great points. But tech wise, Archimedes was a beast.
- romwell 9y ago
  Well, Archimedes didn't really go away, being the first real ARM-based computing device. The legacy is in everyone's pocket.
pjmlp 9y ago
Unfortunately they were an UK phenomenon. I could see Amigas and Ataris everywhere, back in Portugal, while Archimedes were only known to me thanks to Computer Shopper UK edition, Alternative Platforms sections.