By 1993, the Amiga was "the computer that will never run Doom" because of the way it used to manage graphics: good for scrolling games, unsuitable for 3D apps. Several first-person shooters for Amiga came out in the mid-90s, but again, they were too little and too late (they either had extremely poor performances on unexpanded machines, or did not run at all). Afterwards, the Amiga assets were resold 4 or 5 times and none of its owners was able to do anything with them but make false promises.
@SacredEffect A computer that's been killed by the incompetence of the company that used to manufacture it. From 1985 to 1989, the Amiga computers had the highest performance/price ratio: they could multitask, run games with up to 64 colors (in the 80s it was almost unheard of), edit photorealistic pictures with up to 4096 colors and synthesizs music. But then, Commodore almost completely failed to provide any upgrade to them, save an update to the "AGA chipset" that was too little, too late.
still not an amiga!!
dmrvf 1 month ago
@DevilMaster Only need 68030/40Mhz to run Doom full speed, or 040 25Mhz. Any A4000 can do this at a price similar to PCs that also could at the time.
doritostheking 4 months ago
By 1993, the Amiga was "the computer that will never run Doom" because of the way it used to manage graphics: good for scrolling games, unsuitable for 3D apps. Several first-person shooters for Amiga came out in the mid-90s, but again, they were too little and too late (they either had extremely poor performances on unexpanded machines, or did not run at all). Afterwards, the Amiga assets were resold 4 or 5 times and none of its owners was able to do anything with them but make false promises.
DevilMaster 10 months ago
@SacredEffect A computer that's been killed by the incompetence of the company that used to manufacture it. From 1985 to 1989, the Amiga computers had the highest performance/price ratio: they could multitask, run games with up to 64 colors (in the 80s it was almost unheard of), edit photorealistic pictures with up to 4096 colors and synthesizs music. But then, Commodore almost completely failed to provide any upgrade to them, save an update to the "AGA chipset" that was too little, too late.
DevilMaster 10 months ago
what is a amiga
SacredEffect 1 year ago