>> 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.

Yeah. The Amiga defaults to TV scanrates, but you can program it to run 
at whatever you want. (Within reason.) The tricky part is figuring out 
what you need to program it to do. (And getting it to do it when you 
can't see a display!)

The *other* tricky part is that ALL games will run at TV scanrates, and 
there's nothing you can do about it...

> 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.

16 colours out of 16, verses 32 out of 4,096? Seems like a fairly big 
difference to me. ;-)

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