Did it all kill the Amiga or kill Commodore?!
2 reasons for the fall..............
#1 reason was Commodore's management. In the Vic20/C64 days and early Amiga days Commodore was out there. They had small time dealers everywhere. They would fly out to a local Commodore Club and shake hands and show demo's. We had this happen in PoDunk Kansas and got to see the Amiga 1000 before it hit the public. Before long if you couldnt buy so many units you no longer were a dealer. Small computer shops could not afford to buy 1000 Amiga's up front. They cut credit lines and so forth and finally run the little guy out of the market.
#2 was lack of professional software. Things were still in the infant stage in the office world. The Amiga came across as a graphic/artistic computer. There were already new things out for grinding away #'s and data which is what the majority of the business's need. Programming company's saw what Commodore was doing in the marketing and didnt want to spend time developing software for a company in a nosedive. That made things even worse.
I'd say by about 1998 the Windows machines had probably caught up to the Amiga and its abilities. I wonder where the Amiga would be and what it would be doing if Commodore had stayed in business.
THEWASP
