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By the time the VGA and Soundblaster came out as affordable (the early 1990s) the Amiga 500 sold for $299 and was replaced with the Amiga 600. Commodore was hit
by orionblastar 8y ago
By the time the VGA and Soundblaster came out as affordable (the early 1990s) the Amiga 500 sold for $299 and was replaced with the Amiga 600. Commodore was hit hard by PC cloners but could mass produce their computers cheap. About 1/3 rd the price of the Macintosh at least so did the Atari ST series.
A 286 was not as powerful as a 68000 with the coprocessors.
- icedchai 8y agoYep, 286 was pretty lame. 68000 w/coprocessors "felt" on par with a low end 386... though clearly it still lacked in raw computational performance.
- orionblastar 8y agoIt has a low overhead to run faster than DOS Windows. IBM ruined OS/2 by sticking to 16 bit mode for too long and not support enough apps and drivers. Microsoft had a better sdk as well. The Amiga ran games better than even a 486 thanks to coprocessors multitasking events.