Dave Haynie Talks About Developing The Commodore Amiga

[ElPolloDiabl]

The people with the negative comments, didn't actually watch the video that is linked too?
He covers some of the technical apsects and that was very interesting.

[ElPolloDiabl]

Amiga had the CDTV. It was expensive and there wasn't really an upgrade path for it.
For something like that you need a lot of adopters. With a large market you have an awesome appliance.

[ElPolloDiabl]

The Amiga section was making sales. Commodore was losing money because they kept trying to compete in the PC sector and failing.

There were a few things that should have been done quickly: High density disk drives and hard drives. An Amiga felt old when PCs came with them as standard.

[ElPolloDiabl]

And PC manufacturers followed Commodore. 1st Escom, then most of the others.
Amiga could have gone in several directions. Some of the 3rd party add on makers charge way too much. No cheap sound for example.

I would have preferred x86 at the time instead of the more expensive PowerPC. No one ever told me why PowerPC was chosen, except for the endian thing.