@ErikBauer
While CDTV was in HW terms a CD/ 16 it was never marketed as such, IMO that was the main reason as to why it failed.
CDTV was too expensive and Commodore aimed for a market that never existed and failed to build it themselves.

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@Arko

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And in 1993/1994 the A1200 had hmm it still had 2MB, 2MB of chipram that acted like a brake when 8 bit palette was used.

Most (2D) games from that time didn´t need more than 2 MB. There were also memory expansion cards.

8bit on AGA is fully useable in PAL (320x256, 640x256). Games used mainly 320x256 - AGA was sufficient except some cases ("3D").

Only 640x480 8bit is too slow (suited only for pictures etc.).

@pavlor
Indeed I dreamt of a better outcome

At pixel graphics the CD32 could say a thing or two compared to others (more backgrounds than 3DO, more space-CD sound compared to jaguar) and pixel graphics is considered way better than digitized graphics (the only type of graphics that needs more than 256 colors to look good, again sign up at pixel joint and ask about differences and possible results).

CD32 with the right games could've been a player as a 2D gaming machine (in the first 2 or 3 years of its life cycle), the dream part is exactly there, there weren't, but I don't see a more expensive system forced to a single background or a memory limited cart based system who's only advantage was in a type of graphics that looks like crap (digitized 2D) as "killer" competitors.
The greatest killer is having no (or a lot of) good games.

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