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Daedalus · 23 February 2021, 21:14

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.

23 February 2021, 21:14	#6
Daedalus Registered User Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Dublin, then Glasgow Posts: 6,334	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.