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to: MIKE POWELL
from: ANDREAS KOHLBACH
date: 2016-12-27 15:16:00
subject: Re: Why did come classic

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 ).

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.
--
Andreas
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your local ambulance has a trailer hitch.

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