[citation][nom]ryano[/nom]Well wasn't the Amiga 1000 the first consumer computer that had true multitasking, a mouse-driven GUI, and a mouse ? Not to mention 16-bit color, 4-channel sound, full-screen video, well before Apple produced a comparable machine. It was actually Commodore and Atari who were the innovators..with Apple playing copycat.[/citation]
Actually, the Tandy Color Computer was the first microcomputer to multi-task, running an operating system called OS-9.
Apple took the mouse and GUI were the first to put it on a microcomputer.
Commodore bought the Amiga, and it was a headache they couldn't figure out how to solve until it was irrelevant. The Amiga had a lot of customer designed chips that were supposed to help out the 68K, which was kind of dated by the time the Amiga came out.
I remember seeing the Amiga and couldn't understand how anyone could even look at it. The screens flickered so badly you'd get a migraine the interlacing was so bad. Eventually, the ironed out the problems, but, by then it was competing with PS/2s running OS/2, and they never really had much of a chance to be anything mroe than a niche product.
The Amiga was a failure, plain and simple. Commodore did have some successes though, like the Commodore 64 and Vic-20. The Commodore 64 redefined computers for a while, with such a low price and so much memory. It also added sprites, which made for better games.