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  • Re: Why did come classic

    From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to Andreas Kohlbach on Fri Dec 23 21:31:00 2016
    I doubt. Compared to the Commodore 64 which had a lot (not to say all? ;-)
    of the classic games available. These companies (Ocean comes to my
    mind) might already have done a C64 port, why not extend the license for
    the Amiga?

    Different technology? The C64 was more popular than the Amiga. Assuming the games you are talking about were made as C64 cartridges, it may have been difficult enough to port them to Amiga that the ROI just was not there.

    Mike

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  • From Andreas Kohlbach@3:770/3 to Mike Powell on Sat Dec 24 13:46:48 2016
    On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 21:31:00 +1200, Mike Powell wrote:

    I doubt. Compared to the Commodore 64 which had a lot (not to say all? ;-) >> of the classic games available. These companies (Ocean comes to my
    mind) might already have done a C64 port, why not extend the license for
    the Amiga?

    Different technology? The C64 was more popular than the Amiga. Assuming the games you are talking about were made as C64 cartridges, it may have been difficult enough to port them to Amiga that the ROI just was not there.

    ROI as in Return On Investment? I suppose that for most users the Amiga
    was a gaming machine no matter the original intentions of Commodore.

    Most (legal ;-) games I had came of floppy. I seem to recall that Zaxxon,
    one of my all time favorites, and many other came on floppy.

    Btw. reading old computer magazines like the BYTE 4/1984 I found an
    interesting note in "Microbytes" about an not well known company Amiga Corporation that soon unveils a new computer. I searched for other sources
    and found <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Corporation#History>,
    saying:

    | BYTE had reported in April 1984 that Amiga "is developing a
    | 68000-based home computer with a custom graphics processor. With 128K
    | bytes of RAM and a floppy-disk drive, the computer will reportedly
    | sell for less than $1000 late this year".

    128K, haha. The 256K it eventually came with were already painful to
    work with.
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  • From Mike Powell@1:2320/105 to Andreas Kohlbach on Mon Dec 26 14:55:00 2016
    ROI as in Return On Investment? I suppose that for most users the Amiga
    was a gaming machine no matter the original intentions of Commodore.

    Yeah, I meant the ROI for any company that may have thought of porting the games from C64 to Amiga.

    Most (legal ;-) games I had came of floppy. I seem to recall that Zaxxon,
    one of my all time favorites, and many other came on floppy.

    I figured that was how. I never had, or ever saw in person, an Amiga but I seemed to remember that they were more of a "PC" than a gaming console (so, I figured they had floppy drives rather than cartridge slots <grin>).

    128K, haha. The 256K it eventually came with were already painful to
    work with.

    Golly, I can remember when having 64K was a big deal. :) But, by the
    mid-80's the clones had 640k so 256k would be painful.

    Mike

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  • From Andreas Kohlbach@3:770/3 to Mike Powell on Tue Dec 27 15:16:08 2016
    On Mon, 26 Dec 2016 14:55:00 +1200, Mike Powell wrote:

    Most (legal ;-) games I had came of floppy. I seem to recall that Zaxxon,
    one of my all time favorites, and many other came on floppy.

    I figured that was how. I never had, or ever saw in person, an Amiga but I seemed to remember that they were more of a "PC" than a gaming console (so, I figured they had floppy drives rather than cartridge slots <grin>).

    I think Commodore targeted the Amiga as a business machine. But the
    hardware was just too tempting to run games on. And that is what
    happened; business users bought an IBM PC or clone, gamer an Amiga.
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