HanJammer wrote on 2022-03-08, 00:50:
I totally understand people were throwing out 90s clone PCs in the early 2000s - I don't understand same applied to Amigas as these were less popular, mostly used by fanatics as you called them and Commodore was already dead so they should be rather sought after even them... It's not like they could replace them with anything else...
As I see it, the AMD 386-40 killed off all the home computers, pretty much on its own. That and later ones made up by raw power-per-buck what they lacked in media capabilities or usability.
There were TV ads for Atari in the 80s. Amiga 500 were very common in Germany. A Friend of mine was one of those fanatics who swore by his Amiga 2000. But he dropped it like it's hot for his parent's 486 DX2-66.
So let's face it - somewhere towards the late 90, compared to what was readily available, those machines simply stunk.
I was the very last idiot to buy an Atari ST "for real use" for a musician friend who wanted a midi rig for composing. Some time 2nd half of the 90s.
Had bad advice - the Atari having native midi port. And bought a combo of Atari, monochrome monitor, external hard disk and Steinberg software. Small fortune, I think over 500 if not 1000 DM back then.
Well, it worked and anything from back then will seem shitty today but... I remember vividly that already then, that Atari was a generation behind the outdated 486 my parents had at that time.