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-Acid- · 27 October 2018, 02:32

I can see what people are saying about the Amiga being it's own hardware and up until a certain point I agree with that and if they could have kept ahead of the game it would still have been the best course of action.

But by the time they were bankrupt PC components were never going to be overtook again as there was newer, better and faster versions of all sorts of components coming out on a almost weekly basis. And then when the 3D cards arrived how could you pick one to stay ahead of the competition for a couple of years at a time with developements progressing as fast as they did in that area?

Maybe the Amiga was always doomed to come to an end in the late 90's as that custom hardware era was being left behind. Commodore couldn't have hoped to have made better parts than the big companies who specialised in a single area be it networking, graphics, sound or whatever. Perhaps best hope of survival would have been a motherboard and OS combo which could use all of the PC's PCI expansion cards and other add ons.

27 October 2018, 02:32	#88
-Acid- Registered User Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: South Shields Posts: 812	I can see what people are saying about the Amiga being it's own hardware and up until a certain point I agree with that and if they could have kept ahead of the game it would still have been the best course of action. But by the time they were bankrupt PC components were never going to be overtook again as there was newer, better and faster versions of all sorts of components coming out on a almost weekly basis. And then when the 3D cards arrived how could you pick one to stay ahead of the competition for a couple of years at a time with developements progressing as fast as they did in that area? Maybe the Amiga was always doomed to come to an end in the late 90's as that custom hardware era was being left behind. Commodore couldn't have hoped to have made better parts than the big companies who specialised in a single area be it networking, graphics, sound or whatever. Perhaps best hope of survival would have been a motherboard and OS combo which could use all of the PC's PCI expansion cards and other add ons.