And yet not only are modern computers special snowflakes, with exception of the desktop market only alive due to custom hardware used for AAA games on esports, we get whiz-bang chips on all of them.
The only difference is that instead of Assembly and DMA configurations, we now use whiz-bang chips vendor specific APIs.
Commodore and Amiga went down due to bad management.
PC weren't much better unless people were willing to buy whiz-bang sounds cards from Creative Labs or AdLib, while coding for VESA cards wasn't much better without a wrapper library, as contrary to the previous BIOS standards, using Super VGA required drivers from the card vendor.
Naturally not a problem for Windows 3.x games, but not everyone was that keen in adopting WinG from Microsoft.
The only difference is that instead of Assembly and DMA configurations, we now use whiz-bang chips vendor specific APIs.
Commodore and Amiga went down due to bad management.
PC weren't much better unless people were willing to buy whiz-bang sounds cards from Creative Labs or AdLib, while coding for VESA cards wasn't much better without a wrapper library, as contrary to the previous BIOS standards, using Super VGA required drivers from the card vendor.
Naturally not a problem for Windows 3.x games, but not everyone was that keen in adopting WinG from Microsoft.