What is the most difficult thing on the Amiga?

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They could have just got a 14 inch VGA monitor, selected productivity mode and most people would have been happy...unless they wanted to play a game.

[stefcep2]

The interlace flicker was a strength and weakness.

Its strength was that it gave perfect timing for video work, made cheap video mixing possible with a genlock, gave unmatched- for the time- smoothness for video animations, and let you plonk the machine in front of a TV at a time when a VGA monitor was not cheap.  I think all that was reasonable for the A1200 which was targeted at the home user.

The problem was that the professional AGA machine- the A4000-was crippled, in so many ways in additionto the the interlacing, which was a huge hindrance to the Amiga gaining acceptance as a serious machine.  It should have come with a better CPU card and a flicker-fixer.

[stefcep2]

A4000 was from Commodore mostly meant as a games developer system for A1200 game developers, so called serious users had graphics cards even back then.

Whether it was Commodore's intent to have the A4000 as a games development machine I'm not sure.  But the design oversights did do was take out a lot of users who put their joysticks down and wanted to do DTP, 24-bit graphics, office work, but couldn't spend the price of a new kitchen on an A4000.

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You want to hook a PC up to a TV? Fifty bucks Aussie will get you a half gig video card with HDMI out...

How much in 1992?  And genlock?  Interlaced flicker would be the LEAST of your worries..

[stefcep2]

I suppose an HDMI card would have been a bit more expensive in 1992.

Even a simple composite out for a PC would have been