> The resolution doesn't really compare, but the Amiga was targetted at 
> normal TVs. The Amiga's 640x480 is quite near to modern DVD's 720x564.

The video chip on the Acorn was actually pretty cool, it was completely 
programmable so you could pretty much drive anything you wanted from a TV to 
a high resolution monitor.  Even when I got my first LCD monitor I plugged 
it in and it worked!  If you found some weird monitor that didn't quite 
work, chances were that someone could help you out and write the config file 
for you.

> Thing is, up until this point, computer graphics had always been blocky 
> things made out of a dozen flat colours. Computer graphics *looked* like 
> computer graphics. Computer sound *sounded* like computer sound.

Well, to be honest, I don't see the *huge* leap between my BBC B from 10 
years earlier that could do 640x256 and 16 colours to 640x480 and 32 
colours.  I would have expected a lot more.

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