Posted By
Litwr
on 2021-01-18
03:38:00
|  Re: C264 Series Market Failure in Retrospect
@Stinaris Why was the C65 an oddity? Indeed it was rather late but not too late. Ppl bought the C64 even in 1993. I mentioned afore that the Commodore Joystick (DTV) was sold well even in the end of the 90s...
IMHO the real oddity was the C128 which Basic was two times slower than the C64 Basic and its the Z80 was slower than the Z80 in the first Tandy computer from 1977.
Don't also forget about the Commodore PC which undermined both the C64 and Amiga... They were developing their IBM PC cloned while stopped developing the C64 and slowed down developing the Amiga.
@MMS "The Amiga team originally wanted to create an arcade machine" - it sounds crazy for me - why did they develop so advanced OS for it then?
It is interesting that the Amiga could have used the 16-bit 6502 - http://www.commodore.ca/commodore-history/the-rise-of-mos-technology-the-6502/
I've just found an interesting page about the TED-computers - http://www.commodore.ca/commodore-products/commodore-264-plus4-ted-series-the-beginning-of-the-end/
It is interesting that a video about the Archimedes and Amiga - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1osEX6eYHE - starts with the Plus/4...
EDIT.
@MMS I've just found a very good set of stories about the Amiga - here - so the Amiga was definitely not planned as just a game console.
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