A History of Gaming Platforms: The Commodore 64

[Zac67]

Actually the Amiga was initially developed without being based on anything. When C= bought the project, it eventually became the C64's successor in the home computer market. A direct legacy e.g. are the CIAs that were just changed a bit and reused (8520s can even be used as 6526s in a 64).

[Zac67]

echnically speaking (if I'm not misktaken  ), it's the C-128 that's the direct predecessor to the Amiga.

Of course you're right technically speaking since apart from the CIAs (which were pretty common in C= hardware) the Amiga inherited nothing from the 64 - fortunately.

But the 128 never glimpsed at gaining the popularity of the C64, the A500 was more into that as the gaming machine of its time - this I was trying to refer to. In addition, the Amiga became C='s money cow when 64 sales dried up.

[Zac67]

@weirdami

Looking for real figures I found this - while I don't really think they're 100% correct, they show that you're right. Lemme change that to 'when 64 sales declined'.  ;-)
And as amiga 1260 pointed out, they were making more profit with Amigas then.