Re: The Apple ][ was cool!

[Jeff Thomas <a2forever@usa.net>]

Rubywand wrote:

> Jeff Thomas writes ...
> >
> > Rubywand wrote:
> >
>  ....
> >
> > The worst mistakes Commodore ever made were in the early 1990s. (Read below
> > to find out why).
>  ....
>
>      Interesting info!
>

You're welcome! :-)

>
>      In the larger scheme, though, it seems unlikely that Commodore's errors
> mattered much. By 1990 the home computer market and the mechanisms to support
> it belonged to PC.
>
>      No. It was already too late. Commodore had their shot in 1985 and they
> blew it. The best Commodore could reasonably have achieved after 1990 was to
> win a piece of the dedicated game machine market.
>
> Rubywand

In terms of price vs performance vs features the PC was forever getting an edge
over Commodore with only one company producing them compared to hundreds of PC
clones.

The only genre, that the Amiga still had strenght in was "platform" and "vertical
shoot-up the' ups" games like R-Type, Xenon 2, etc. Anything else, it can't
compete.

Try comparing say "Zool 2" on the PC to the Amiga version. The scrolling on the
PC version was terrible and jerky - it has improved since, for instance, check
out "Xenon 2000".

Jeff.