AGA came too little too late. It was beaten easily by a VGA card on pc.
Sound also lagged behind. There should have been 16 bit sound with software mixing at least on the 1200 and 4000 at least. They probably also should have
had decent midi synth chip built in by then, but they didn't.
Pc had this by then with soundblaster. commodore completely ignored the sound hardware and let it remain at what they made in 1985 for the amiga 1000.
7+ years and they did not improve the sound chip? 7+ years is ages and ages in the computer world. It was revolutionary in 1985. By 1992 it was WAY outdated. How did they not do ANYTHING to improve sound in amigas?
They should have at least made it 16 bit instead of 8 bit.
I started my music career on amiga sound. I desperately wanted to do 16 bit cd quality sound and more channels. This, more than anything is why I HAD to switch to pc when I realized the new amigas had the same old sound. (Faster tracker II and Impulse tracker had 16 bit sound if you had a soundblaster)
AGA was not as impressive as vga and svga. An amiga 500 could easily complete with a nintendo or sega genesis as far as games. NO WAY an amiga 1200 or 4000 or even cd32 could compete with a playstation, released in 1994. Playstation blew these machines out of the water as far as graphics,
sound and game quality.
They dropped the ball. They lost the willingness to stay ahead of the curve
and be innovative. THATS why commodore died. When I heard that the 1200
and 4000 would have the same old sound, I knew commodore was either
dead in the water or had perhaps one final shot to redeem themselves.
I still thought they could make a comeback, and my stay with a windows
pc would be short.
I dreamed of an amiga 5000 with 16 bit sound, better video, cdrom games,
and more. I'm still dreaming...
