Am I the only one who doesn't love AGA chipset?

[runequester]

I liked the graphics, but I'd have liked a bit better sound chip.

In the end though, it wasn't so bad, as we discussed in the other thread. Yeah, a PC with VGA, a sound blaster and a fast 486 processor could outperform the miggy, but the cost was ridiculous unless you were loaded or had rich parents.

So could a 3000 dollar machine outperform a 500 dollar machine? Certainly.

The amazing thing is that it didn't always do so
VGA was great for games without a ton of movement (adventure games f.x.) but scrolling could be pretty wretched.

[runequester]

I understand why they did it, and given my favourite Amiga game of all time is only possible on AGA I am split 50/50. There still is no better update to Asteroids, free or commercial, than Super Stardust AGA....a game which is a complete nightmare to actually get working properly on a DOS PC which still needs 100x the CPU speed to do any justice too!

It's still hard for me to believe that super stardust would run on as little hardware as it did, on the amiga side

btw I love my car 100%, there is nothing about my car I think is out of place or missing a feature and it is an improvement in every way from the previous model (which I am a big fan of too!) so as an analogy it does kind of work.

what car is that, just out of curiosity?

[runequester]

Any application in which pixels are individually calculated would benefit, including the vast majority of multiformat video playback software.

Aren't we quite past the early 90s at that point though?

Not being snarky, but I have a hard time remembering anyone really doing video playback until mid to late 90's.

[runequester]

We do it because we're a bunch of sad and bitter tards who can't let go and accept that the World kept spinning the last 15 years.

Absolutely. Maybe Ace of Base will put out a new album soon too

[runequester]

Games were a big deal on the amiga, but I dont know anybody who ONLY used it for games.
 
Everyone I knew were into something else as well, whether it was writing stuff for school, some coding/programming, plenty of graphics and music stuff, demos etc.
 
Especially when you factored that amiga app's tended to be pretty cheap in comparison to PC app's.