What is the most difficult thing on the Amiga?

[spirantho]

Amigas don't flicker any more than PCs do! If you put a PC through a TV then it flickers too!

Anyone saying the Amiga is worse than the PC because of screen flicker isn't giving the Amiga a fair shot. Stick the PC monitor on the Amiga and - surprise, surprise - the flicker disappears.

[spirantho]

@spirantho

I've got a Mac Mini attached to the back of my main TV, there's no flicker and I'm running 1080p video through it, so I'm not sure what you are talking about.

Well.. yes... if you're running it in 1080p there won't be. But if the Amiga was flickering then it was told to output an SD signal, not an HD one, and won't have been connected to an HDTV.

The Amiga doesn't flicker - the display does. Saying the Amiga is bad because it flickers is like saying the PC is bad because it displays 16 colours. Just because it supports that doesn't mean that that is it's limitation!

If you set the Amiga to 1080p (and yes, you can do it), then it won't flicker. If you connect it to an SD TV then it will flicker because all SD TVs flicker at full resolution. And yes, if you connect your Mac Mini to the same TV that the Amiga was on, then it will flicker.

[spirantho]

Or even used the monitor that Commodore recommended for the Amiga 4000, like the Commodore 1960. No flicker then!

It's no wonder the Amiga got the reputation it did of being a non-serious computer, if the people demoing them were doing crazy things like using TVs for serious work (and then blaming the Amiga for the TV's interlacing!!)!