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Tigerskunk · 26 February 2021, 06:34

I just remember that I could literally not understand why anyone would buy a PC when I saw one in the late 80ies in the shops I visited.

Almost everything I saw on them looked bad, and certainly worse than on an Amiga.

Garish colours on EGA, slow graphics, PC beepers, having to use DOS to get anything useful done, etc, and those things cost like 5 times what an Amiga cost.

Things changed with VGA cards, hard disks and the raw power of the 386 CPUs. Suddenly games started to look better on PC.

The whole handling of the machine was still a lot worse than on the Amiga, and it felt like going back a decade when using one in the early nineties.

26 February 2021, 06:34	#56
Tigerskunk Inviyya Dude! Join Date: Sep 2016 Location: Amiga Island Posts: 2,788	I just remember that I could literally not understand why anyone would buy a PC when I saw one in the late 80ies in the shops I visited. Almost everything I saw on them looked bad, and certainly worse than on an Amiga. Garish colours on EGA, slow graphics, PC beepers, having to use DOS to get anything useful done, etc, and those things cost like 5 times what an Amiga cost. Things changed with VGA cards, hard disks and the raw power of the 386 CPUs. Suddenly games started to look better on PC. The whole handling of the machine was still a lot worse than on the Amiga, and it felt like going back a decade when using one in the early nineties.