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Early DOS days. By the early 90s the raw processing power of a 486 with VGA and a Soundblaster pretty easily trounced the Amiga in raw capability, inelegant as
by epcoa 3y ago
Early DOS days. By the early 90s the raw processing power of a 486 with VGA and a Soundblaster pretty easily trounced the Amiga in raw capability, inelegant as it may have been. A bunch of demos of the period document this conflict.
- jcadam 3y agoI didn't have to fight with (or even know about) things like IRQ jumpers and Expanded memory management on the Amiga. That was kinda nice :/ Sure, the PC had superior graphics and sound by the 486 era, but it was not a pleasant user experience.
- layer8 3y agoSmooth 60 Hz scrolling was still a challenge on VGA.
- Narishma 3y agoThat might be because VGA ran at 70Hz rather than 60 in its 256 color mode.
- vardump 3y agoSmooth 60 Hz 320x240 256 color "mode-x" scrolling was for free on VGA. Just had to update the start address and panning registers. You could also have a hardware supported stationary portion. 70 Hz 320x200 mode 13 was a different matter. Had to use CPU to update it.