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Re: C65
« on: February 11, 2006, 07:17:43 PM »
It's not only that AGA was late. It's that when it was released to the masses, the machine (A1200) needed expensive  laptop hard drives, had no Fast RAM, no CDROM (yes, massive crappy games like Myst etc sold quite a few PCs), no in-built software modem... to name just a few problems that hindered Commodore from keeping its user base.
And after all, the above are things that most people ended up buying within a little time from buying the A1200 as its shortcomings were obvious. The A1200 should not have been meant to be another C64. Anyway that's history...
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Re: C65
« Reply #1 on: February 12, 2006, 07:15:14 AM »
@Effy

I still have my original A1200 manual and it reads that the machine has 1MB of Chip RAM. I can recall being in the car, with my brand new A1200 on the back seat, waiting for my mom to drive me home, reading about this in the manual and freaking out! Of course when we got home I rushed the machine to tme 1084, loaded WB and relaxed :)
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Re: C65
« Reply #2 on: February 12, 2006, 07:19:26 AM »
@SamuraiCrow,Tomas

Yes, I completely forgot about the 030 that should have been there from day one.
But software like SimCity2000 and other similar from that era were definitely poorly programmed ports of PC software so there go all the benefits of the Amiga's custom chips. They were the equivalent of C64 poor ports from the early Amiga era. In both cases, programmers couldn't do the job properly.
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