PMC wrote:
The Archimedes was a lovely machine... 4096 colours, with 256 on screen at once, 8 channel sound... How come the hardware sucked? I saw a couple of Arch demos and was very impressed.
Yes, the Archie had better resolutions and more colours, but the performance of the graphics was quite poor. The Architecture was not designed for Arcade graphics.
It was also quite a bit more expensive than the Amiga!