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Re: If Tramiel bought Amiga?
« on: September 26, 2011, 02:02:39 PM »
A1200/A4000 were simply too little too late when they were released, IMO.  Things may have ended up a lot differently if AGA was scrapped in favor of AAA or another more competitive in the market offering.  When the internet took off, NIC's for Amiga's were still so prohibitively expensive compared to PC solutions, that didn't help any. Seeing Doom and Myst on the PC back then was a real game changer for me.

I remember those days very, very well.  I can still remember vividly how much it pained me to box up my '060/RTG machine for sale when I realize the ship was sinking.  Bought a Pentium 200mhz/Win 95 Acer Aspire with the cash from that, and I was Amiga free until I bought my SAM 440 when they first started shipping.  All these years later, and with several MS certs under my belt, I still find Windows kludgy and unintuitive compared to even WB 3.1, lol.