Scrolling 2D: why so good on Amiga?

[ognix]

Ok, it seems this argument is not that obvious after all...

And yes, maybe I've not tested/watched deeply in the PC/Windows software arena, but I think this Amiga hardware is better at this specific task (leaving the 3D solution, of course).
Thanks for all answers... maybe I raised the attention of some developers on this subject (for promoting nice/portable/system friendly scrolling routines...  ).

[warpdesign]

Well, there's no doubt in 1985-9 the Amiga was a lot better than PC for any kind of arcade games... But the 386/486s and the Mode-X made perfect scrolling games possible on the PC as well. And by 93-94, a lot of PC arcade games had good scrolling, in addition to more colors than Amiga versions, no slowdowns and same module-based sound... And at the same time, any other games (3D, adventure) were a lot better on the PC (256 colors, more animations, voices,...).

[Crumb]

@warpdesign

most of 93-94 games released for pc had both worse music and scrolling than amiga versions (we had quarter pixel scrolling on AGA and reaching that smooth scroll would have required that they opened 1280 width screens to do the same). Your pink memories aren't real: even thought it was technically possible to do smooth scrolling on PC most of PC coders forgot that and you had 256 colour sprites with big square pixels scrolling jerkily with metalic sound coming out from yogurt-like speakers.

3D games? IMHO first FPS shooters were boring as hell. The first entertaining FPS for me was half-life. The rest? I played Alone in the dark series on my amiga, just like Comanche, Duke Nukem, Dark Forces, Wolf3D and others.

[Karlos]

Sure. With AGA at least.

Sweet. I didn't hallucinate it after all :-)

[ChaosLord]

Scrolling 2D: why so good on Amiga?

Cuz Amiga r0xx0rz da sc3n3!

Because Jay Miner knew what he was doing.
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[kickstart]

I remember wrath of the demon on my a500 and the same game on my friends 386dx (a good pc for this times) no words for the result, just my friend wanting another a500.