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They did actually make better sound and video Zorro bus cards, so you could use those if you had an A2000, A3000, A4000. Actually you could even buy a kit to put the guts of your A500, A600, A1200 into a case with backplane that gave you multiple Zorro slots instead of just the one (plus detachable keyboard, bigger power supply, drive bays, etc.) So you could expand any Amiga to do just about anything, including run Video Toaster or these:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CyberVision_PPC
So that was really fantastic for people with lotsa money. But most euros didn't have as much to spend as burgers, and especially not eastern euros. So like in that comic I posted, people were happy to have A1200 for 1/3 the price of PC. And unlike PC you didn't need a monitor, TV was good enough for games, and even text in 60 columns mode. It was best option unless you ONLY wanted to play games, and then maybe a console made more sense. A1200 was still a solid computer even in 1995, enough for most tasks a home user could ask a computer to do, and AmigaOS 3.1 was better than Windows 95 except maybe for not having TCP/IP built-in. But actually in 1995, most access was still plain dialup to a Unix shell, those were still much more common than SLIP/PPP.
Amiga might have survived longer if it didn't keep ge