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While plain VGA was certainly still a step up, it lacked hardware support for scrolling/sprites AFAIK. Also the PC speaker was abysmal for sound, the Amiga had
by nineteen999 7y ago
While plain VGA was certainly still a step up, it lacked hardware support for scrolling/sprites AFAIK. Also the PC speaker was abysmal for sound, the Amiga had it beat in that area as well. You needed a SoundBlaster card or similar to get decent sound, and had the set the Address, Port and IRQ in nearly even game to get one working.
I feel like it wasn't really until the late 486/P75/P90 era and the PCI bus, when SVGA with 2D acceleration became the norm and PnP was possible for the SB16 cards that the PC really became more competitive or pulled ahead of machines like the Amiga. And all that fancy graphics and sound hardware was expensive too.