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I only got to use an Amiga much later when it was already "retro" but the gigantic pixelated icons meant to be displayed on an TV over composite and ugly fonts

I only got to use an Amiga much later when it was already "retro" but the gigantic pixelated icons meant to be displayed on an TV over composite and ugly fonts and gaudy colors just gave me the impression that it was a toy. Reinforced by all the pirated games the one I had to use came with. It's a shame Commodore never properly iterated on the product to let it reach it's potential.

timbit42 3y ago
While the Amiga had NTSC output, of course that was limited to the resolution a TV could produce and so it was pixelated, but the Amiga could do 640x400 on a monitor and that looked less pixelated than the Mac. The Amiga 3000 could do interlaced without any of the flickering you get on NTSC. After Jack left Commodore in 1984, Irving Gould was in control and he seemed hell bent on pulling as much profit as possible out of the company for his personal benefit. He didn't leave R&D or Engineering enough money to do anything meaningful. That is what killed Commodore. The greed of one man.