Re: The Apple ][ was cool!

[Jeff Thomas <a2forever@usa.net>]

"Carlsson, Anders" wrote:

> Jeff Thomas <a2forever@usa.net> writes:
>
> > The floppy drive remained the same, single-sided format.
>
> Hm. I always thought the Amiga drive was double sided, double density
> compared to the newer PC drives which were double sided, high density.
>
> Also, whether the Amiga/ST had a fair market share or not probably
> depends on if you live in Europe or the US. I believe the Amiga had
> a *much* larger market share in parts of Europe like Great Britain,
> Germany or Sweden, than in the US, who got interested first when the
> CD�� arrived, and that is 1993 with one year left for Commodore to live.
>
> --
> Anders Carlsson

Yes, the drives were double-sided double-density which by then seemed silly
when high-density disk drives were cheaply avialable.

Atari's biggest market was Germany until the aftermath of the 'price war'
that left both companies finincially crippled. Then the Amiga, took over.

In terms of sales, the largest market was Europe rather than America where
interest was always in a small scale.

The "Amiga CD32" was basically a standalone game console based on an Amiga
1200 but with a different chipset, therefore an CD-ROM connected to a Amiga
1200 couldn't run CD32 games - a hardware fix was needed to fix that.
Commodore couldn't decide on what to do. It didn't want to kill off the
newly created "Amiga CD32" game console by making the CD32 games compatible
on the Amiga but then little else was avialable on CD for the Amiga 1200.
Fatal mistake!

The "Amiga CD32" had a very short product life, because the next generation,
game consoles came along notably "Sony Playstation" which totally destroyed
it, and nearly "Sega" - who have completely pulled out of the market and are
only producing/licensing games now.

Jeff.