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To: hoosierham

For those that didn't know it,Amiga had the first 32bit CD game console with video that whipped everything else,...but...Commodore execs had taken such huge salaries there wasn't money to properly market,nor build enough machines.They missed that years Christmas gift season and were bankrupt by the next one.The public doesn't buy what they don't hear/see.


43 posted on 04/06/2006 4:24:56 PM PDT by hoosierham (Waddaya mean Freedom isn't free ?;will you take a creditcard?)
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To: hoosierham

I remember seeing the Amiga CD32 game console. To me, it just didn't compare to the other niche consoles like the 3DO or the Jaguar (I still have my Jaguar...the Tramiels while running Atari were good at putting out hardware, but the Tramiels while running Atari were also sh** when supporting the hardware they put out). I think it was based on the Amiga 500 computer and could be turned into an CD-enabled Amiga 500 with a piece of optional hardware, however the computer add-on and the planned MPEG-1 VCD adapter didn't make it because Commodore went completely belly-up just a few months after releasing the CD32.

What unimpressed me the most with the CD32 were the game titles like Zool 2 (it was already available for the Genesis and was later released for the Jaguar) and Mortal Kombat II (I was satisfied with the Genesis and Super NES versions).

I never used a Amiga (but I have used a Windows-based Amiga emulator called WinUAE, and I liked it), but I used to have a Commodore 64, Atari 600 XL, and an Atari 520 ST (although the last time I used an ST was using a Windows-based emulator called WinSTon...it's fairly easy to find the TOS roms). I still have my "built like a tank" Atari 800 computer (the one that had two cartridge slots and a real full-size keyboard).

And I still think to this day that the Atari ST was named ST for Sam Tramiel.


48 posted on 04/06/2006 7:47:32 PM PDT by bigdcaldavis ("HYAHHHHHHH!!!!!!!" - Howard Dean; Xandros - Linux Made Easy)
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