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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: bitman on February 06, 2016, 06:07:39 PM
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I just added a new entry to BBoAH - the Amiga 2200 / A1000jr:
http://www.bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/product.aspx?id=2015
BBoAH already had another A2200 entry, a machine by Canadian Ami-Tech:
http://www.bigbookofamigahardware.com/bboah/product.aspx?id=19
The A2200 version by Ami-tech supposedly had an Akiko chip, but the Commodore version Winther the same name is an ECS machine
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Commodore really wanted to market that?
They really did know how to dig there own grave.
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Indeed very curious piece of HW, but why they even bother to make one? Already old chipset and all... I don't get it. The management got really stupid before they fell off the ground?! Or was this for some odd testing purposes?
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Indeed very curious piece of HW, but why they even bother to make one? Already old chipset and all... I don't get it. The management got really stupid before they fell off the ground?! Or was this for some odd testing purposes?
I think it's been covered enough times that management were stupid.
When Bill Sydnes came in he killed off any projects that had already been started, otherwise it would look bad if those projects were more successful than his own. So that ruled AGA out.
He brought in his own people from the PC industry, which explains the switch from SCSI to IDE.
I think ultimately they wanted to make PC's, so getting rid of the Amiga wouldn't be a bad thing.
Commodore before Bill Sydnes wasn't perfect, the AAA chipset was a bad idea all along. AGA was plan B but should have been plan A, starting it sooner would have given them more time and money to do all the things that they wanted to do. So we might have had high density floppy disk support, chunky pixels, rs232 dma etc. But Bill Sydnes definitely didn't help by putting AGA on hold.