But we are talking in the past tense, back then Commodore did have the power of sony (at least in the games arena).
Psersonaly the Guy who took over development of engineering (he came off the PCjunior I believe) should have been shot. He canned AAA for starters, and put in the very costly, and not all that usefull PCMCIA port. AKIKO was completed just a few months after the 1200 launch- it should have been in the A1200 as well as the CD32.
There was to much cost cutting at commodore by this time,I guess that was down to their failed PC division, and the A600 (and just general mismanagement). But if you had got rid of the PCMCIA port and waited a few months,the saving there alone would have allowed a 28mhz 020, fast ram and maybe AAA and Akiko too. That machine would have been a beast!...I still love my A1200 though, just because you can expand it to hell and back! If Pleasance and Commodore UK had suceeded in their buyout, who knows where we would be today?
