Posted By
MMS
on 2021-01-10
13:14:09
 |  Re: C264 Series Market Failure in Retrospect
Well, as I know, a several key engineers left with Jack from Commodore. (ATARI ST housing was designed by Ira Velinsky, who designed the Plus/4 too)
The Amiga team originally wanted to create an arcade machine, so there was a kind of tension between the C= management and the original Amiga team. The Amiga later developments (including A2000 oe 1200, 3000) by Dave Haynie, whose first task at Commodore was related to Plus/4 (maybe the kernal? I am not sure), so he was not the member of the original Amiga core team.
The closest things related to the idea of arcade "upgradeable machine" (of the original Amiga team) was CDTV and CD32.
C65: Interesting, that our machine also mentioned 
"The Gazette added, "Our sources also report that there is a great deal of infighting at Commodore as to whether the machine should be released. The sales staff wants to get the machine out the door, while the naysaying engineers have dubbed it 'son of Plus/4.'"While the next issue reported that "the latest rumor is that such a machine will never see the light of day", Fred Bowen and others at Commodore in 1990–1991 developed the Commodore 65 (C65) as a successor to the C64. In the end of 1990 the decision to create the C65 was taken. The project was cancelled later on."
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