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Offline KimmoK

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Re: Amiga vs console vs PC
« on: September 24, 2014, 04:53:15 PM »
A2000 stuff etc...

In y1989 I got A2000 with 3MB RAM and HDD etc.
In y1990 it was still far superior to normal PCs that people were buying.
In y1993 or so the 7Mhz speed was clearly not fun enough. (I got A3k/030/25 as a loaned HW)
In y1994 040 was still good to use (but more expensive than vanilla 486). (I got 4k/040)
In y1996 060 was compareable to P1 in performance. (I had also P1/75HW and got 060 for 4k)

Then x86 was too far ahead to really compare.
Untill y1999 A4k was my main system at home.
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Re: Amiga vs console vs PC
« Reply #1 on: September 30, 2014, 12:14:14 PM »
@psxphill

>The AA+ project was announced but the design work was never started.

AA+? AAA prototypes were already in the testing phase.

>AGA should have been upgraded to 16 voices, with 16 bit audio and 16 bit video

I think Amiga 8bit had enough quality untill late 90's. 16/24bit was/is needed for professional use.

>AA+ should have been FMV capable.

You mean as a standard? AGA needed the extra decoder.
 
>If they'd hit these milestones then commodore would have survived, but you can see how wildly they were off the mark.

Commodore died because of the losses in PC sales. Same for Escom.

Perhaps Commodore would have survived if it had focused on Amiga in early 90's.

IMO: the biggest handicap of A1200 and CD32 was the lack of fast RAM as a standard.
« Last Edit: September 30, 2014, 12:16:43 PM by KimmoK »
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