Subj : Re: Lemmings game for DOS
To   : Nightfox
From : Spectre
Date : Thu Nov 02 2023 04:01:00

 Ni> I've had that thought too.  I never had an Amiga, but it seems it would
 Ni> have been fun to have one.  Sometimes I feel like it's a bit sad that the
 Ni> more advanced stuff sometimes doesn't continue on.  It sounds like PCs
 Ni> ended up catching up and superceding Amiga eventually though.

The PC got by, by being the master of nothing. It was a workhorse that could
do many things reasonably well or well, not neccesarily good.  The
architecture left it open for any kind of video standard to come long later
and just get shoehorned into the system, much the same goes for sound too.
Not to mention you had corporates giving the whole thing economy of scale,
and all that equipment used to be worth more and filtered out into the second
hand market.

Things, like the Amiga, IIgs were a little hamstrung in that regard, they
were good/great for their time, but the abilities they had were it, there was
nowhere to go forward from there unless you deliver a whole new machine.

Spec


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