Quote: " Yeah, but the irony of the outcome is Doom (and later Quake actually) were both released on the A1200 AGA
They don't run half bad either.
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Yes, Quake was available both commercially and of course later from the source ports (plus an few others), the muscle needed to run at reasonable level of through AGA, requires such a high end 040, or 060 system.
There's now lots of ports of Doom, Heretic etc.. both for 68k + PPC, for various gfx api's today.. There wasn't in 93/94 when this style of game was taking off big.
There were a few really valid attempts that came to market (that come to mind), virtually all of which from the demo scene. Ahh the good old days of #AmiScene
Breathless ( from Dr Skull / Virtual dreams fame)
Gloom (Mark Sibley)
Fears (Agresis (spelling ?) /Complex )
Alien Breed 3D (Team 17)
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This said, the Trinity & Picasso, could've provided Amiga with the graphics background. Given the oppertunity.
As I mentioned above, it really wasn't Amiga's vision and systems that killed them; but Commodores stupid mistake of trying to hold onto static designs.
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They didn't, they simply offered the mass market what it told them they wanted, from the a500's success. A500's were in millions of homes, however it might as well have been a console, for the level of productively that was taking place. So A600/A1200's were extension of the same logic, cheap and gumbie friendly. At least with HD packs introduced the idea of the carry bag Amiga as a productively device to many, and not just a gaming device you slam auto booting disc's into.
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I mean with the A500, you could upgrade the HD, and Ram.
My machine has the A530 (150MB) HardDrive, and 68050 33MHz 2MB Upgrade Board. (it also has a Squirrel 4x Serial CD-ROM).
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Erm 68050 ?. Most of the side car/trapdoor expansions for a500 came with accelerators, it's more likely a 68030 though.
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but the problem with these upgrade were they were EXPENSIVE. The Hard Disk was basically the price of the machine again, same goes for the Upgrade Board. While the options for upgrading were there, they were far too expensive for the average people.. and they were far more limiting.
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The price factor doesn't hold water. At that time, a cutting edge Doom system, aka the 486dx2 66 then Dx4 100 systems, was easily in $2200-$2500 mark here, if not more. People were happily shelling out big, as the incentive to play these games was a huge draw card. For a little more $$ the punter have had a easily comparable Amiga system, but No Doom.
Thanks to a lack of chunky modes in AGA.
