It a shame commodore went under in 1994, one would think they could keep it going with all the machines they sold over the years. but i think they made some bad choices. The amiga cd32 was a good console, but i think they should have shipped it with 040 cpu and 4 mb ram, so it could compete with the new pc and playstation. it was a time where 3d games took of
I doubt that would have been practical. The 040 was expensive, power hungry and hot and were only used by Commodore in their big-box systems.
What the system really needed was Fast RAM, even if it was only an additional 1MB. That and something better than akiko for chunky graphics support. If not a real chunky display, then at least an implementation of akiko that could both perform the C2P and write the result to Chip RAM directly, rather than being something you wrote to, read the results back from and then wrote them to Chip RAM yourself. All that data shuffling didn't do performance any favours.
