Was EuroPC another Amiga wanna be....?

[PMC]

Yeah the SAM wasn't the prettiest, but I liked it.  It wasn't exactly Spectrum based either, as it featured a faster CPU but happened to have legacy compatability with 48k speccys.  Apparently there was a feature where you could edit the screen colours of speccy games when running them on a SAM, but seeing as I've never used one I can't confirm it.

The Archimedes was a lovely machine...  4096 colours, with 256 on screen at once, 8 channel sound...  How come the hardware sucked?  I saw a couple of Arch demos and was very impressed.

I too remember Silica selling those Mega PCs back in the day too...  You can get an Amstrad emailer machine today that's Spectrum compatible too.

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PMC wrote:

The Archimedes was a lovely machine...  4096 colours, with 256 on screen at once, 8 channel sound...  How come the hardware sucked?  I saw a couple of Arch demos and was very impressed.

Yes, the Archie had better resolutions and more colours, but the performance of the graphics was quite poor. The Architecture was not designed for Arcade graphics.

It was also quite a bit more expensive than the Amiga!