What the hell was the Amiga Jr?

[Tomas]

Ohforf wrote:
About the Amiga jr. :
Google found this

No Details about the Machine there.
I wonder how they built a cheaper Amiga...
No Floppy Drive ? 128K RAM ? :-?
Whatever, must have been a lousy Idea.

Was it not the commodore c65?

[Tomas]

I bet that there are a lot of companies that have piles of "never released idiocy", not just Commodore. Some of those companies went under and some didn't. The ones that went under consider the piles a lack of focus or management failure. The ones that didn't probably chalk the piles up to the vagueries of the developement cycle. If Commodore was still around, we wouldn't care one bit about what the Amiga Jr. was or was not.

Commodore put out some good stuff.

What good stuff did CBM do in their later years?? The only thing i saw them do was buy up amiga and milk it for all it was worth without doing anything significant with it or even market it. They basicly milked the a1000 design from 85 for years with only small upgrades, which is why Amiga was behind the pc in many areas when the a1200 came out.

[Tomas]

Marco wrote:

Tomas wrote:
Was it not the commodore c65?

No, the C65 was actually a very good project, it was an update to the C64 rather than a downgrade to the Amiga, it basically gave the C64 almost Amiga like graphics and sound capabilities, had an integrate 3.5" Floppy, 128K RAM (expandable to 8Mb) a 128K ROM, res up to 1280x400, 6 channel audio, even had a trapdoor expansion port like the 500/1200, this page has some info:

http://www.zimmers.net/cbmpics/c65.html

You are probably right.. The ram specs just seemed similar. But i disagree strongly with C65 being a good project.. I might have been a good project in the 80s, but this was aimed for the 90s and you already had Amigas with much better specs and the c65 was outdated compared to pretty much everything.
Why not just promote the Amiga as the new succedor to the c64? Why should people buy low end c65 when they could have had an Amiga? I highly doubt the c65 would have been significantly cheaper either.