...after Commodore went out of business the Amiga shops around central FL dried up faster than spit on a sidewalk in summer and not a single one of them ever carried a CD32 or an A1200 that I saw.
No CD32's made it to the U.S. officially.
The XOR patent prohibited that, and it didn't get resolved until way too late.
If that hadn't happened, would sales of the CD32 in the U.S. kept Commodore afloat long enough to do something about the lack of good Doom-clones?
Doubtful I think.
The only real solution would be much faster CPUs (I don't think a new chipset design would have been able to be compatible and done in time), and those were still pretty expensive from Motorolla...
Although, if the CD32 sold well enough to keep Commodore going...
Could an A1400 (which I just made up; basically an A1200 with a 68040 (socketed so it could be upgraded to a faster 040) and at least 2M FAST RAM have held off the PCs for gamers?
A 68040 was plenty good enough for DOOM at the time..
Hmm...
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