Even workbench 1.0 would be a forerunner.. ;)

I was selling amigas during thier downfall, and the problem was the PC market was just starting it's price war thing, and amiga just had too small a share of the marketplace to be able to compete like that.  Apple was in the same boat, and the 2gs died as well as the atari computers.

Price wars are great for consumers, and BIg companies.. anyone in between pays the price for them.

Regardless of web posted hindsight, I was on the "inside" and we all could see the writing on the wall for a very long time. I stuck with the Amiga because the machine was VERY revolutionary at the time, but we knew 2 years before it was discontinued that we were going down the dark path of extinction.

BTW, there are amiga emulators for PCs, and they do a pretty good job of emulation. Playing some of the old Psygnosis games is still fun, but there's not a whole lot of reason to run the utilites any more, since so many advancements have been made.

I REALLY wish colorfont tech had made it into the PC world though!

 

Way too many people take way too many things way too seriously.