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Offline sparkeyjames

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Re: Amiga guilt and time distortion.
« on: April 15, 2011, 05:00:23 AM »
Quote from: persia;631649
Windows 95 ended the debate.  It was solid, graphical and cheap.  There was a brief moment for Amiga and then it was gone.  I believe there was no winning hand.  The direction the industry took was inevitable.  Instead of crying over the past let's just enjoy our little corner of it.

The Amiga really never had a huge chance. IBM already dominated the business world. A world where the Amiga would never be able to penetrate. I mean look at it this way. The Amiga was in production in various guises for 9 years and in those nine years NOT ONE MAJOR maker of software for business ported their stuff to the Amiga. As much as we all hate to admit it the Amiga was a nitch computer. It could have moved into the area where the Mac went for a number of years and that is Desktop publishing. C= was killed from inside by Medhi Ali before that could happen in any serious way.
 

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Re: Amiga guilt and time distortion.
« Reply #1 on: April 15, 2011, 05:16:04 AM »
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From memory wordperfect was ported. And Electronic Arts are chopped liver i guess?

What type of software did the amiga lack that ibm machines had?
It isn't that there wasn't software that was aimed at business for the Amiga it was the BIG names that were missing. 1 big name software package out of a few hundred that ran under PCDOS/MSDOS is not a BUT But but moment. It is also doubly hard when your company is looked at by businesses as a games machine maker.
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