Amiga audio early lead lost..

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The "problem" with the audio, certainly in the late 80's early 90's was that audio data used up a lot of space... So even if you could play back 16bit 44.1Khz files... You probably wouldn't want to, just because a floppy disk couldn't hold much of that

So with the Amiga, you have audio that is "Good Enough" (TM), at a time when the engineering management don't want to spend money on new chips, and certainly won't spend on a feature that would only have limited/future use... It was such thinking that ultimately killed the platform... To quote Steve Jobs: "You gotta skate to where the puck is going to be, not where it is now".

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You're quoting Bill Skates? :insane:

I know, but you see, I don't know about hockey... I do know about Steve Jobs

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@Chaoslord I don't mean to be rude, but your rantings are just insane... I love the colour Paula's audio reproduction, but it is far from a "good" sound chip. Even in the mid 80's it was simply "good enough" (ie better than the competition) at the price point.

You go on about the fixed frequency of modern sound chips, but that is the best way to get accurate audio reproduction... The Amiga's frequencies were based on the rate the DMA could feed the chip and this only ever approximations of the required frequency... Etc...