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Re:The making of Dark Castle by robterrell on Friday March 23, 2018 @07:25PM (#16663543)
Dark Castle was 1986, but your point stands. But 1987 was the year the Mac II came out, with excellent color graphics support. It just took a while for developers to support it.
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Re:The making of Dark Castle by sien on Saturday March 24, 2018 @05:24AM (#16665684)
When the Mac II came out it cost $5500.

The Amiga cost $600.

Sources:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macintosh_II

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_500

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Re:The making of Dark Castle by pjmlp on Saturday March 24, 2018 @08:45AM (#16666332)
In Portugal Macs were never an option until NeXT saved Apple and got it reborn.

There was only one reseller located in the capital, and the prices were way beyond other systems that were available in any major city.

The first time I ever saw a Mac live was when I arrived at university, where the student campus had some LC (the pizza boxes ones) for doing the usual word processing stuff.

Programming, at any level, was done in PCs and UNIX terminals.

At home, it was split between Atari, Amiga and PC.

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