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Originally Posted by oscar_ates
What was the reason to cripple it with 16-bits bus?
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Cost cutting.
They did similar stupid things with the STe, giving it a 4096 colour pallete but then keeping the same three screen modes which really wouldn't showcase those extra colours without TIMER-B reload tricks.
Should have at least allowed the STe to have a native 32 colour mode, its like they saw a spec sheet for the Amiga but only read the first word of each spec without looking at the details.
Same problem with the improved sound on the STe, Amiga had 4 independent volumes for each channel, STe had one, which is why samples appear cut off on STe but fade out nicely on Amiga.
Cost cutting and without considering what those cuts would affect, because each of their machines just seemed to be reacting to what Commodore were doing and not having an actual design ethos of their own.