@ others - As for comparing an A500 with a 486 PC nope, I was comparing something like F1GP on an A4000/030 and a 486 PC costing the same price, I think if you actually try this too you will see with your own eyes the PC playing speed runs rings around the Amiga version FOR THE SAME PRICE 
Still don't get your point in trying to compare the Amiga to a PC, even with the above example you give what's the point, the Amiga is what is/was if you thought PCs were so much better then why did you buy an Amiga in the first place ?
You said it yourself if you'd not been such a skinflint and bought an Amiga accelerator you could have sold it to a numptie like me on ebay today for one hell of a good price...

I've posted my views on Medhi Ali & Commodore plenty of time here so suffice to say if I ever find the little turd I'll be up on a murder rap...

Quite simply I just don't see what the point is in comparing a machine that was based on custom built hardware to something that was cobbled together from off the shelf parts (whether it ran faster or not).
No one forced you to buy a PC cos you needed Windows to complete your studies, I went to college too and I told them if you want anything from me then you get it done on an Amiga and I did it my way...

I've never needed to use a PC in my life for business or pleasure (ran my own D.T.P. business on two A500s) and when I grow tired of the net these macs go back on ebay and I go back to my own wee world where the Amiga rules supreme...

Guess what I'm trying to say here is, if more folk had been like me and not followed the world of PCs and Macs just because your boss or studies insisted upon it then the Amiga might have still been manufactured today even if it wasn't through Commodore...
