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Offline ElPolloDiabl

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Re: Top 3 worst ideas in Amiga history?
« on: February 10, 2010, 12:27:33 PM »
1. Butchering the A1200 to reduce cost
2. CDTV
3. Not marketing the CD32
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Re: Top 3 worst ideas in Amiga history?
« Reply #1 on: February 22, 2010, 02:25:22 PM »
Quote from: Minuous;544387
The A2000: overpriced and underpowered. The flagship Amiga of its time should and could have been so much better.

I'll think of 2 more later :)

The A2000 was certainly overpriced when it first came out, but this a common theme with new things: rake in money off of all the rich people who want the most powerful system. A year later it was $2000 with 020 and 50MB Hard drive. Compare that to Macs at the time they were about $3000-$5000.

I thought the A2000 was great, you could switch off the Accelerator and play all the arcade games. Switch it back on and do some more serious work.
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Re: Top 3 worst ideas in Amiga history?
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2010, 06:29:39 AM »
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I just got an A500+ in a trade (in which I got totally screwed, thank Eric), but have never heard about any "backward compatibility issues" until now.  Please tell me what issues the A500+ has.  Mine has a AmigaOS3.1 Kickstart ROM installed in it.


It might be the 1MB chip ram, it affects some games. Otherwise try relokick to go to Kickstart 1.3.
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