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 ,
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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