What killed off the Amiga?

[carls]

Well, the Amiga isn't dead yet :-)

I've recently looked at some old computer ads from 1994-1996 and ultimately I think it was Commodores bankruptcy combined with lower PC prices and higher Amiga prices.

All of a sudden the kids could use daddy's PC to play games on (for example Doom, which I also think has a part in the "death" of the Amiga) so there was no need to buy a special "game computer" anymore. That, combined with the fact that you could get a very fast PC for less money than an A1200 with a hard drive, a decent monitor and some extra RAM.

[carls]

Well okay, not dead, but the position it became in the late 90's and now.

I'm just pulling your leg

[carls]

If you have never read it before, take the time to read An employee's reflection on how CBM killed the Amiga - written some time back by Ed Graner who was shamefully underpaid by CBM:

Ah, capitalism at it's finest :-)

I hear a lot of sad things from ex-Commodore and ex-Amiga Inc. employees. Are there no unions in the US that could take care of these matters? Especially the credit-card part of the story seems totally unbelievable!