It was way beyond in multimedia capabilities at a point, but that edge was quickly eaten away by the raw power provided by the 486, and later the Pentium, combi

It was way beyond in multimedia capabilities at a point, but that edge was quickly eaten away by the raw power provided by the 486, and later the Pentium, combined with the modular PC architecture. The Motorola 68k-family were beautiful processors to program, but unfortunately they didn't manage to scale compared to the x86. Commodore never made the jump to PowerPC. The 1200 was a nice machine, but it was just a bit underpowered in every department. It had a 68020 rather than a 68030 (which meant no MMU), 8-bit sound rather than 16, no fast-mem (memory reserved for use by the CPU alone), and no chunky graphics mode (which had been rumored before its release). The last point was a bit of a death knell for any kind of serious graphics performance. The planar bitmap model had worked ok on the older models with a maximum of 32 colors (5 bitplanes), but with 256 colors you had to do 8 writes to set a pixel. The bitplane model worked great for sidescrollers and similar games, and also for rudimentary 3D games with the help of the blitter co-processor, but when PC games started to do texture mapped 3D in VGA, the Amiga 1200 was left in the dust.