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Re: differences between uk/us/european amiga scenes
« on: August 19, 2007, 03:23:37 PM »
In the US, by the time the Amiga came around, the business market had already gone to the pc and it's clones.  The home market was shifting from hobbyist machines like the C64 & Atari 800 to the next level up. Those buyers wanted something that would be compatible with their work machines. Unfortunately, that wasn't the Amiga. :-(  It was a marketplace thing...kind of like VHS vs Beta. Beta was better, but the 2hr vs 4 he play time was a big deal when blank tapes were $20 *each*. So over time, Beta had less to offer, even though it was the better format originally. Same with Amiga. About the only place Amiga did make it in the US was the desktop video market. There were lots of those folks... so it's probably telling that the last US Amiga magazine was "Video Toaster User" ;-)
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