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Originally Posted by Daedalus
There was plenty of work the Amiga could do - to say that it was only intended for gaming is plain silly. It wasn't intended for high resolution monochrome work - that was dealt with already by Macs and STs, and text was the domain of the PC. But nothing could touch it for the cost for video and graphics work. And if you *really* wanted to do high resolution stuff, there was the A2024 monitor which could do a vertical resolution of 1024 on OCS machines without interlace. It was an expensive beast, of course, but it was also clearly not intended for games.
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I was going to mention that the Amiga was the "creatives' computer", but I didn't want to muddy the waters. I mean, how many of these creatives would also be bothered by the interlace flicker, even though for video and genlock work, it was NECESSARY?