The Amiga brought us DPaint, OctaMED, AMOS, Blitz Basic, and a whole lot more. People bought it for the games, then got interested in the creative possibilitie

The Amiga brought us DPaint, OctaMED, AMOS, Blitz Basic, and a whole lot more. People bought it for the games, then got interested in the creative possibilities. At the very least it inspired a generation of game developers, digital artists, and electronic music creators. Meanwhile, many PCs of the time only had PC speaker audio capabilities, the horrible palette of EGA, and the inability to scroll the screen smoothly. And a DOS prompt rather than a smoothly-multitasking GUI. Yes, there were only a few short years before the PC caught up/overtook the Amiga. But for those few years, the Amiga was something really special.