Amiga's fundamental problem was that it was just a gaming console, optimized for PAL display and that there was no compatibility wrapper.
EVERYTHING intimately depended on that.
But optimizing for one thing means also pessimizing for just about everything else.
So once PAL&NTSC CRTs were out, so was the Amiga.
Even if those next-gen desings werewithout bugs and snags (big if!), what would they really bring to the table ?
Emulation of the original Amiga (to some extent) + what: entirely new machine, that really has not much to do with Amiga concept ?
Or new Amiga, this time heavilly optimized around new CPU, with new accelerators and for new resolutions ? Fine, but;
1. Who's going to write kickass games for that mode ? 2. What happens 2-3 years down the line, when progress obsoletes that tech ? 3. With all that, how efficiently that new mode uses that HW, compared to gaming consoles etc already on the market ?
All these new designs were getting killed on binary compatibility at some point or another.
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Date: 2023-04-19 03:25 pm (UTC)EVERYTHING intimately depended on that.
But optimizing for one thing means also pessimizing for just about everything else.
So once PAL&NTSC CRTs were out, so was the Amiga.
Even if those next-gen desings werewithout bugs and snags (big if!), what would they really bring to the table ?
Emulation of the original Amiga (to some extent) + what: entirely new machine, that really has not much to do with Amiga concept ?
Or new Amiga, this time heavilly optimized around new CPU, with new accelerators and for new resolutions ?
Fine, but;
1. Who's going to write kickass games for that mode ?
2. What happens 2-3 years down the line, when progress obsoletes that tech ?
3. With all that, how efficiently that new mode uses that HW, compared to gaming consoles etc already on the market ?
All these new designs were getting killed on binary compatibility at some point or another.