When did you realize that the wintel machines had caught up to the amiga?

[Khephren]

When these games came out, I realised the writing was on the wall. We either had inferior versions, or no version at all.

TFX (1993)
magic carpet (1994)
terror from the deep (1995)
subwar (1993) -amiga untextured
frontier (1993) -Amiga untextured
Doom (1993)

If the 1200 had been given akiko, fast ram (which would also have doubled the processor speed) and a high density floppy, maybe things would have been different. And Paula not being upgraded in 8 years? criminal.

When I bought the A1200 I was really excited, but it did not have the power or memory to make use of it's colour palette.

[Khephren]

Overnight I had a think about this... I bought my A500 because of it's gaming potential, and it'dfantastic hardware.
One of the reasons I was loath to part with Amiga, was no longer the chipset, but the OS. I guess I became an apps user as well as a gamer.

I too thought PC's unusable until windows '95. And over here in Britain, I could'nt afford a PC until they dropped to about £700 (about '96 '97 I think). Even then I still thought windows slow, and a bit of a mess. Although to upgrade the Amiga A1200 cost me more than that, what with CD-rom, HDD accelerator and ram - but I spanned that over seveal years.

And as I was doing a graphic design course, I had a fully fledged Mac (emulated) for a lot less than other people on my course payed for one!

[Khephren]

ami_junki wrote:
heheh hasn`t happened to me yet, maybe im too simple but i still find my lovely amiga useful to me ... sure i have my mac for some other things but it always feels like the amiga was made to do things the way i wanted them done.

I'm not saying I don't find it usefull. I think if it had survived to go onto for one more generation with commodore, web browsing/3D/MP3/AVI/RTG sound and graphics etc - which it just missed out on, it would be comparable to what my vista machine can do now (obviously not HD films etc, but you know what I mean, basic functionality for the future would have been in place).
But with much lower processor and memory needs -and probably better.

I still love the OS, it's works well, is fast and frugal, and I understand whats it's doing. It isn't just a monolithic registry, and mess of exe and DLL's. Which every PC iv'e owned is, straight from boot up for the first time.