Honestly both the Amiga and ST were excellent computers. Judging by the A1000 I'd even say the ST was the better machine, considering the price. The reason so

Honestly both the Amiga and ST were excellent computers. Judging by the A1000 I'd even say the ST was the better machine, considering the price. The reason so many people who had an Amiga are (still) salty over the ST is that lots of games were ported straight from the ST without taking any advantage of the extra power of the Amiga besides audio. While the publishers are to blame here, the ST is the easy target. Had the ST not existed, those games would have likely targeted the Amiga hardware first and foremost, and been far better as a result (proper scrolling, higher framerates, more and better colors, etc.). But again, the ST is not to blame for that. Similar thing happened to MSX and Amstrad CPC owners with ZX Spectrum ports. These days all these machines have healthy homebrew scenes that show how nice the hardware really is. I still can't believe Dread and Metro Siege are real Amiga games. And Dread has an ST port, and that's a good thing.