I grew up with Windows (and to a lesser extent - at my dad's office, or in the school computer lab, Macs), but I remembered hearing about how incredible and ahe

I grew up with Windows (and to a lesser extent - at my dad's office, or in the school computer lab, Macs), but I remembered hearing about how incredible and ahead-of-its-time the Amiga was. Given that reputation, when I finally got WinUAE setup, I couldn't believe how awful Workbench 1.0 looked. "Well", I told myself, "I guess it was from the mid-80s. You can only expect so much. It's not bad compared to Windows 1.0..." So...you can imagine my dismay when Workbench 2.0 (1990) and 3.0 (1992) looked...it wasn't garish anymore; it was incredibly drab, but still awful. Compared to their contemporaries - Windows 3.0 and 3.1, respectively, to say nothing of MacOS at the time - there was no contest. If you were doing anything besides playing games or video work with the Toaster I couldn't imagine buying an Amiga at that point, given what else was on the market.