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That was a problem, but that didn’t kill the Amiga. It had enough advantages for people to pay more - but Commodore mostly rested on their laurels. When the Ami
by beagle3 6y ago
That was a problem, but that didn’t kill the Amiga. It had enough advantages for people to pay more - but Commodore mostly rested on their laurels. When the Amiga 3000 was out, it turned out that the CPU was faster than the blotter, for example - over 10 years, CPUs effective speed was almost 10 as much, but the ECS (which included the graphics coprocessor) wasn’t even twice as fast as the original 1985 version if I remember correctly.
And Commodore was really horribly mismanaged at the time in every perspective.
And yet, the Amiga lived a very, very long time - i know it was still used in TV stations into the early 2000s, despite being dead for a few years at that point, and the PC world having caught up to it and surpassed it in capabilities.
Amiga hardware and software is still coming out. But it’s the afterlife now.
- icedchai 6y agoI remember running a program on my Amiga 3000 that replaced calls to the blitter with calls to the CPU. Performance for common operations, like scrolling text, was greatly improved. Except for faster CPUs, the Amiga barely changed from 1985 to 1993. The AGA machines (1200, 4000) were too little, too late.