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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Ugh..

How did PCs beat out the Amiga, Mac and ST with nonsense like that?

[–] [email protected] 37 points 6 months ago

Because I could play the same copies of the same games on my Tandy 1000, the IBM PCs at school, and my friend's Packard Bell. Standardized architecture was, and still is, a huge draw.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Open and documented APIs.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

How did PCs beat out the Amiga, Mac and ST with nonsense like that?

I think you can ultimately blame Compaq. It was the first "pc clone" that showed the market that a PC not from expensive IBM was viable. After that even if you weren't buying a Compaq your own generic clone was "good enough". So You could access hardware and software built for a $4000 8088 IBM PC with your $1200 clone.

Amiga never was commodity hardware. It was always expensive. It didn't get cheap enough fast enough. Amiga 500 came too late.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

What you did there, I see it.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Phoenix BIOS/The BIOS Wars

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

They couldn't play Doom (until much later). Even to this day, the Amiga ports are lackluster. Hardware wasn't designed for that kind of game.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

They could play Wolfenstein and Doom...