| libellule said: but, sorry, WHY did Amiga died if it was so much better than other ? I didnot get it Game list too good to be true : cadaver Z-out simpson : invading mutant another world syndicate populous 1/2 megalomania labyrinth d'ortophus vigilante dynasty warrior ghoust n ghost galaxy war toki ice and fire terminator 2 r-type moto gp (or something like this) |
It died for a number of reasons. One was piracy (it was rampart) and the other was the incompetence of Commodore who had no idea how to run a business because they were in tax haven in the Carribean. Commodore Management was a complete joke.
Damn, I loved the Amiga. It was the coolest computer ever. I still have a working A1200 with an 68030 @ a whopping 50mhz running Kickstart 3.1 and O/S 3.9. It boots in less than 10sec from a cold start. It multitasks, I swear, even better than Windows 7, albeit with programs a lot less complex. It's a piece of magic.
Commodore never invented the thing, btw, They just F'd it up. There was an Easter Egg in the Amiga at one stage that if you ejected the FDD in a certain sequence it said, "Jay Miner invented the Amiga, Commodore fucked it up".
I loved how most of the motherboards had names denoting the model and they were named after B52 songs. It was a real pioneer, geek happy time in computers where the corporate owners had no idea what the techo's did and the passion those techo's had. Commodore had no passion, no idea.
