What if ?

[Tomas]

I truly believe that the a1200 should have had a HD and a cdrom as default. PCs were starting to be sold with cdroms at the time when a1200 was released. Also the soundcard should really have been upgraded. 8bit sound was excellent in the 80s, but it was quite outdated when the a1200 was released. I really cannot understand why commodore never upgraded such important part of the hardware. They basicly milked the amiga for all it was worth. We really did not see much innovation in the amiga hardware after the a500.

[Tomas]

SamuraiCrow wrote:
@Tomas

The reason was compatibilty with hardware-banging software.  The AHI drivers weren't available until later (although Commodore should have come up with better drivers).

They had years to come up with a solution. There is always a workaround...