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Want to give an Amiga user an orgasm? Fuck them gently and at the right moment, nibble their ear and whisper the words "custom chips" into it. By contrast, the

Want to give an Amiga user an orgasm? Fuck them gently and at the right moment, nibble their ear and whisper the words "custom chips" into it. By contrast, there's a story about some Microsoft engineers taking a look at the Macintosh and asking the Apple engineers what kind of custom hardware they needed to pull off that kind of interface. The Apple guys responded, "What are you talking about? We did this all with just the CPU." Minds blown. The designers of the Mac (and the Atari ST) deserve mad credit for achieving a lot with very little. Even though, yes, the Amiga was way cooler in the late 80s.

fractallyte 1y ago
And the Amiga was faster than the Mac when emulating a Mac. I know this first hand, because I got my first email address with CompuServe, running their software under emulation, while using my Amiga's dial-up modem. (I had to sneak the Mac ROM images from the computers at school...)
- krige 1y ago
  In one amusing juncture of really bad port and emulation/hardware speed, Sim City 2000 was reported to run better as Shapeshifter-emulated Mac version, than the Amiga native version, as long as you could meet the hardware requirements. This was due to several factors, chief of which was that the SC2000 Amiga port was made under extreme time pressure and, probably, very low budget. Later patches alleviated that to some degree, but patching your game in 1993? Who did that? What you got on your floppies was usually what you were stuck with barring some extreme cases of negligence.