Why did commodore went under?

[bbond007]

Hi why do you guys think commodore went under? one must think that all the Commodores and amigas they have sold over the years must have been giving them a lot of money in the bank.

because they failed to settle a dispute over a patent to Cad Soft for the use of their XOR cursor and as a result they were banned from importing CD32s (for the US market) during the 1994 xmas season. they were already living paycheck to paycheck at the time.

If the CD32 was a success on they US market then maybe they could have kept the doors open.

[bbond007]

Commodore could have used EGA Monitors as the standard on the 500/2000 and VGA on the 3000/4000 but still used OCS/ECS and AGA. This would have likely saved money and allowed the Amiga to be taken more seriously due to not being another plug into a TV job.

The RGB port on the A500/2000 will use an EGA or CGA monitors. It looks really bad because those monitors are "digital" and predefined palette of 16 colors which don't map well to anything.