From: "Hugh Falk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Apple would be #1, DOS would be where Apple is today (Maybe with GEM or > Geoworks as the shell), and Atari/Commodore (sadly) would be where they are > today.
I don't know if Commodore would be where it is now had it not been for Windows... granted they were falling behind the technology curve, but in 92-93 (what I see as the true end of the Amiga) the Mac was a falling system, which wouldn't recover until the iMac realease at the end of the decade. So, with no competition from MS the only gaming machine alternative would ahve been Amiga... granted Europe would have gone with it, and development would have been much slower (we'd probably just now be looking at games like Duke Nukem and Quake) but still, it would have become the standard. This is a good question as well... would consoles have developed as quickly without the PC pushing 3D? If you look at it, consoles didn't even think of 3D until the PC was doing it and then in only very limited ways, granted 3D is expensive, but it wasn't even part of the program.... had 3D gaming not been done on the PC, would anyone have demanded 3D on consoles? Sega obviously didn't expect it when designing the Saturn. Karl Kuras Visit Our House the online comic strip! http://ourhouse.trantornator.com ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent to you because you are currently subscribed to the swcollect mailing list. To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of 'unsubscribe swcollect' Archives are available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/swcollect@oldskool.org/
