The flicker might have been a drawback for many, but the ability that you could connect the Amiga directly to a TV set or a VCR was also one of the strong features of the Amiga.
Back then monitors was much more expensive than today, and many could not afford to buy both a computer and a monitor.
For games the display wasnt an issue, most games did not use interlaced modes anyway.
And for video usage the Amiga was a perfect starting machine for making titles and slideshows and record them directly to the VCR.
But if needed for serious apps, you could connect a VGA monitor and get better displays.
As some mentioned, the flickering was the TV's fault at the time, that was the technology that was available. Forget 1080p and such, I'm thinking about native PAL/NTSC screenmodes that was available then.
But for those who wants to connect a TV to an Amiga today, I guess that most modern TVs are 100hz or 200hz. Shouldnt that take care of the flickering, even for interlaced Amiga screenmodes?
..Back to the topic, one of the things that made me strugle was setting up AmiTCP to get dialup interneting to work. This was before the excellent MiamiDX apeared.
