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On Wed, 5 Jul 2017 10:31:14 -0700, Dimensional Traveler
<dtr...@sonic.net> wrote:

>On 7/5/2017 10:04 AM, Ross Ridge wrote:
>> Mike S.  <Mik...@nowhere.com> wrote:
>>> And as for graphics, are you sure it looks better on the C-128 even
>>> after a graphical scaler like hq3x is applied in Dosbox?
>> 
>> I'm sure you can use the same scalers under a Commodore 128 emulator, but
>> I've never really liked them personally myself.  The slightly improved
>> graphics I'm talking about a result of the PC and C64/C128 ports being
>> done by different people from the same base Apple II game.  Both games
>> greatly improved on the Apple II graphics, both use a resolution of
>> 320x200, but the Commodore port is supposed to be slightly better done.
>> At least as far as the tile sets go.  Looking at dungeon screenshots the
>> PC version looks noticeably better, the C64/C128 dungeons appear to be
>> using 160x200 graphics, so maybe I'm wrong here.
>> 
>>>> The Bard's Tale games and Dragon Age probably play
>>>> better on the Amiga for similar reasons.
>>>
>>> The Bard's Tale looks and sounds better on the Amiga winUAE emulator
>>> but the DOS version plays better in DosBox. At least that was my
>>> experience when I played through the Bard's Tale a few years ago.
>> 
>> Yah, when I tried running the C64, Amiga and IBM PC versions of Pool
>> of Radiance to see what version was better, I found using WinUAE to be
>> a pain.  That was something like 15 years ago though.  I was kind hoping
>> that the state of Amiga emulation had improved by now.
>> 
>> The great thing about DOSBox is that it's designed to play games first
>> and foremost.  (It's actually kind of a crappy emulator for things
>> aren't games.)  I remember reading a post by the person behind UAE or
>> WinUAE about how upset they were that all people wanted to do with it
>> was play games.
>> 
>They expected people to run WordStar and Lotus spreadsheets?

Maybe they wanted people to start using video toaster, which kept the
Amiga alive long after its hardware was far surpassed by other
platforms. Of course, these days there's not much call for a program
that can edit NTSC standard-def TV video...

Amiga was also a strong contender in the early days of desktop
publishing, although it was quickly passed by Macintosh and - much
later - PCs.

But, yeah, it's odd that they'd consider WinUA would have been used
for much other than games.