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   Andreas Kohlbach to Mike Powell   
   Re: Why did come classic   
   27 Dec 16 15:16:08   
   
   On Mon, 26 Dec 2016 14:55:00 +1200, Mike Powell wrote:   
   >   
   >> 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.   
   >   
   > I figured that was how.  I never had, or ever saw in person, an Amiga but I   
   > seemed to remember that they were more of a "PC" than a gaming console (so, I   
   > figured they had floppy drives rather than cartridge slots ).   
      
   I think Commodore targeted the Amiga as a business machine. But the   
   hardware was just too tempting to run games on. And that is what   
   happened; business users bought an IBM PC or clone, gamer an Amiga.   
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   Andreas   
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