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[-] psvrh@lemmy.ca 5 points 1 year ago

Ugh..

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

[-] ptz@dubvee.org 38 points 1 year 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.

[-] ikidd@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Open and documented APIs.

[-] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year 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.

[-] BearOfaTime@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

Phoenix BIOS/The BIOS Wars

[-] frezik@midwest.social 4 points 1 year 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.

[-] Vegan_Joe@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 1 year ago

They could play Wolfenstein and Doom...

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