Amiga 1300[What ifs]

[pwermonger]

I don't think the 1300, or any machine made based off the 1200, would have been more than a drop in the bucket.

Commodore had already screwed up their lead and squandered it. 1200/4000 should have been released around 3000 timeframe but instead they kept on basically the same chipset from 1000 in 1985 through 3000 in 1990 not to release any significant update until 1992. That 7 years saw PC games start to move to VGA even before Win95 was released and already showed the Amiga as dated. To have another 1 to two years just to get a slightly faster processor wouldn't have brought in new users.

[pwermonger]

Well if you read the accounts from people like Haynie it appears the 3000 was originally supposed to be the 4000, with a DSP. That means AGA chipset on an 030 back in thereabouts of 1990 unless I have read the accounts wrong. Thats the only thing I can see that would have helped, not cancelling machines with advanced chipsets and stagnating on Agnus/Denise/Paula for so long. People bought machines back then based on capabilities not OS. Only way to enhance the capabilities was with new chipsets on the Amiga.

So, a chipset that could compete with early VGA relatively well, years sooner. Many projects that could have kept Amiga competitive longer cancelled not because it couldn't be done but because of management.

This is why I don't consider any retread of the existing Amigas as able to make a dent to change the outcome. Maybe just forestall it a few more months with some added sales to existing customers but to justify it, the costs of retooling an assembly line have to be factored in. They had a retread, remember? the CD32. It didn't change the outcome.