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I got my C64 when I was 10. I was fascinated by music and games. Remember turbo tape? :-) Some years later when my father intruduced me to his first pc I was di

• beagle3 6y ago
  The Amiga was out in 1985. The PC did not have comparable graphics and sound to the C64 until the early 1990s and to the Amiga until the late 1990s. Sure, you could - at any point in time - get a good frame buffer card from e.g. Matrox and a good sound card from e.g. turtle beach or Gravis. But the baseline targeted by most software was a SuperVGA du jour and 8-bit soundblaster (Adkins compatible!). 16 bit sound became common only at the end of the 1990s, whereas the Amiga had 14-bit capable sound in 1985 (required a trick, but was there all along).