/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6936086
A 486 can play Doom.
An Amiga can produce the CGI for Titanic.

>>6936086
Used both a A3000 and 80486 simultaneously.

>>6936086
486 can play Doom. Amiga can't play anything good.

>>6936114
Even Speccy can play Doom! Pathetic.

>>6936114
Amigas were for creative people and professionals

>>6936086
If we're talking EGA/VGA 286 vs Amega, I'd go with the Amiga for most things
But with the VGA/SVGA 386/486? PC every time.
Amiga was basically old trash by the time that the 486 DX2 was out anyways.

>>6936114
Amigas were good for sound and video edition.
Not for games.

>>6936114
>>6936119
>>6936146
Well'en I gess tha bout se'lls it
Amiger aren't for gaming

>>6936145
>Amiga was basically old trash by the time that the 486 DX2 was out anyways.
ha ha, have fun swapping all of these, sucker

>>6936162
I fucking love that game, but I had the CD version on PC. I can only imagine for annoying it would be to swap 11 floppies all the fucking time.

also it would have 32 colors while the PC has 256 colors

>using workstations for games

>>6936189
386s were workstation computers with no real consumer focused chips, consumers were using 8088+286s at that time. But 486s (and most Amiga models) were very much marketed to consumers.

The one advantage the Amiga still had in the early 90s was smoother sprite animation and scrolling than PCs, but that was erased when VESA arrived.

>>6936145
You're retarded

>>6936216
Are you the kind that views all computers as "workstations" and gaming should be left to consoles?

>>6936215
Most full size Amiga graphics cards pissed all over VESA

>>6936221
Yes, because I learned it that way in the 80s. I had different machines to work on different tasks and later a Genesis and a SNES to play on.
Playing on PC didn't interest me until the first 3D accelerators came along.

>>6936207
386 was expensive and not viable for consumer PCs in the late 80s but in 1990 Intel began licensing second sources and the cheaper 386SX came out so from 90-92 it was the dominant CPU in most PCs.

>>6936241
Still trying to figure out the reason for the initial post >>6936189

>>6936224
then why can't they make Doom run at more than 10 fps despite expensive accelerator boards that didn't even exist when the Amiga was commercially relevant?

>>6936251
Again, who cares for games? Kids.

>>6936086
Imagine a magical time: the late 80s - when every serious computing enthusiast looked down on PC owners like PC owners today look down on the console crowd.

Paradigm shifts are a funny thing.

>>6936273
not really since PCs were seen as serious machines for doing the company accounting on and most of the other stuff you're thinking about were considered toys

>>6936171
What, you don't play German erotic management sims on Amiga on 19 floppies?

>>6936279
Yes really. PC owners were subhumans, even lower than ST or ZX Spectrum owners.

>>6936285
That's AGA so it would just be installed on a hard disk. Most OCS/ECS stuff was designed to run off about 25 floppies once you got to about 1991.

>>6936285
floppy juggling was the hallmark of the poorfag. Chads had HDDs.

>>6936298
I'd like you to get a time machine back to 1986 and try and get the company IT department to purchase a fleet of Atari STs instead of IBM ATs and see what response you'd get.

>>6936306
Many German companies did just that.

>>6936306
I can imagine what would happen.

>vat? Atari? isn't that what my 12 year old nephew plays?
>do they even make computers?
>now quit messing with my head and order those 15 Compaq Deskpro 286s I told you to order

>>6936315
see >>6936308

>>6936308
And it created an insane tech debt in the mid 90s when there was switch offs to Win95 but was not able to carry any of the software over.

Yeah no way would corporate America put an Amiga or Atari ST in their offices. For one thing, no Lotus 123 and no dBase makes Jack a dull boy. Besides, Commodore and Atari's tech support was poor to nonexistent.

>>6936335
We didn't experience such a thing.

>>6936179
>>6936162
You ever seen that Amiga version of X-COM? Dear god how horrible.

IBM compatibles shite all over amigers

>>6936383
>IBM compatibles
You rang?

>>6936383
PC was and is for kiddies.

>>6936383
Let me guess: you're also a Windows user

>>6936417
>Posted from my PC

>>6936473
No.

>>6936086
>THE GREAT DEBATE
>zoomie or chimp

>>6936451
Incorrect.

>>6936086
TE-LE-FE

>>6936614
Linux virgin

>>6936627
What do you use?

>>6936348
>Commodore and Atari's tech support was poor to nonexistent.
This is what always baffled me about seeing any amount of corporate adoption of Atari and Commodore's equipment in Europe.

>>6936679
Your mother.

>>6936701
seething cuck who insults windows but probably uses it anyway.

>>6936709
No.

>>6936162
except you don't?
pc's always had an hdd to install things to and 99.9% of the time you had to install them.
so the floppy juggling was a one time deal unlike amiga (unless you weren't a sucker and had an hdd for the amiga, which wasn't common).

>>6936715
sure

Is this a joke?
486. Even 386.

There are people who pronounce it four eighty six and not four eight six, and speak a whole extra sylable and waste time just like me with this here post

>>6937082
You think that's bad? pronouncing Amiga as an anglo is a total nightmare.
How the fuck do you even pronounce it? Uh-may-gae? Ah-mie-gyuh? Aw-mah-gey?
Fucking Commodore should have used a more anglo-friendly word.

>>6937089
Just Amiger innit, luv me Amiger

>>6937098
That's still confusing.
Awe-muh-gur? Ae-mah-gaer? Ow-Moh-Gor?

>>6937105
>Ow-Moh-Gor
if I ever become a powerful god that's what I shall be named, you will not be fogotten I shall spare you and shower you in nice things

>>6937089
Ay-May-Gay

>>6937089
>>6937228
>cringe
zoom

>>6936739
pic is of the Amiga version

>>6937441
Who are you quoting?
Also you don't need to sign your posts here.

>>6936093
Except they used Windows NT-based DEC Alpha machines for Titanic. Even before that though, big budget CGI like that would have been done on an SGI workstation, not an Amiga.

video toaster was more like low budget TV CGI than big bucks movie productions

Remember when the Spectrum spammer was spamming Superfrog memes for a while?

>>6936086
Does the 486 have a good soundcard for playing back tracker music?

>>6937451
I'm "quoting" an aspie
Also I'm triggering an aspie
And I'm triggering an assmad 30yo zoomer
Keep seething little cunt

>>6937491
Yes. Man the day he dies /vr/ will be so much better.
Some people shouldn't have access to the internet.

>>6937497
Gravis Ultrasound

>>6937536
Go away, horrible little man.

>>6936162
You'd have to be quite poor if you didn't have a hard disk with your Amiga by the time that got released.

>>6938159
>zoom
lmao

>>6936120
By the time 486s became affordable, those creative and professional people used power macs and sgis if they were really professionals.

It's pronounced Augh-mae-ghae

>>6937089
>>6937098
>>6937105
>>6937228
>>6940270
It's A-Me-Ga

Oh no don't make me post the videos of Double Dragon, Scrappy Doo, and Yolanda again.

>>6940270
>>6940290
U-Mae-gwa.