On Fri, 23 Dec 2016 21:31:00 +1200, Mike Powell wrote:   
   >   
   >> I doubt. Compared to the Commodore 64 which had a lot (not to say all? ;-)   
   >> of the classic games available. These companies (Ocean comes to my   
   >> mind) might already have done a C64 port, why not extend the license for   
   >> the Amiga?   
   >   
   > Different technology?  The C64 was more popular than the Amiga.  Assuming the   
   > games you are talking about were made as C64 cartridges, it may have been   
   > difficult enough to port them to Amiga that the ROI just was not there.   
      
   ROI as in Return On Investment? I suppose that for most users the Amiga   
   was a gaming machine no matter the original intentions of Commodore.   
      
   Most (legal ;-) games I had came of floppy. I seem to recall that Zaxxon,   
   one of my all time favorites, and many other came on floppy.   
      
   Btw. reading old computer magazines like the BYTE 4/1984 I found an   
   interesting note in "Microbytes" about an not well known company Amiga   
   Corporation that soon unveils a new computer. I searched for other sources   
   and found ,   
   saying:   
      
   | BYTE had reported in April 1984 that Amiga "is developing a   
   | 68000-based home computer with a custom graphics processor. With 128K   
   | bytes of RAM and a floppy-disk drive, the computer will reportedly   
   | sell for less than $1000 late this year".   
      
   128K, haha. The 256K it eventually came with were already painful to   
   work with.   
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