Why can't a windows machine do it.

[KThunder]

put your amiga into 640x512 mode with 16 colors or 256 with aga and see how stuff goes.

an svga screen at 1280x1024 and 24 bit color depth transfers ~120 megabytes per second at 30 frames over the bus to scroll stuff. it also requires cpu intervention.

my wifes computer is a 750mhz athlon classic that had an s3 agp card in it. doing just internet stuff was annoying because of scrolling so i put an old nvidia tnt2 card in and at 1024x768 24bit it is smooth. my computer has an ati 9800 pro and is good to 1600x1200.

i  build all my own machines however. if you buy a store bought computer is most likely drowning in crapware and spyware and maybe even viruses.
buy a copy of xp home do a fresh clean install with new drivers for everything and see how it does.

[KThunder]

its kindof like when audio cds first came out. record albums were considered obsolete and you could prove a dozen ways that cds were better. but there were people out there (still are) that liked the fuzzy tunes scratched out by a needle on plastic. it felt "warmer" or "more dynamic"

i just got my amiga hooked up again after some remodelling and using emulations. and i can tell you i am all for emulation and aros etc. but when i sat in front of my 3000 for the first time in a while and fired it up; i like the warm feeling. nostalgia is a good thing sometimes.

i dont really care for my pcs like i do my amiga maybe its because i have so many or because some are in a render farm and i dont really interact with them the same way. im not going to say they are pathetic technology next to my mighty amiga though. it is special beause it is different, but not perfect.