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Superior at what? At flashy scrolling graphics demos?

well, yes, that at least. but I recall my A500 with 64 colours at 640x512 and 8 bit stereo sound when my friends were using 286's with cga/ega video cards and the PC speaker. the difference was huge. Games were a big part of it (I was in my early teens after all) and games on the amiga just looked and sounded better at least until VGA and sound blasters became a thing. Even then, PC's were held back with DOS and Windows 3.1.

ISTR the mid 90's taking my amiga into school so we could play alien breed, chaos engine and the like.

Did you ever try to add a hard disk to an Amiga?

yes, I did. iirc, I had a 52MB scsi hd and 2meg of ram in a greater valley products HD enclosure. One of these I think: https://www.bigbookofamigahard...

I also had a 120meg internal 2.5" hd in my A1200 which also had a blizzard 50mhz 68030/68881 cpu/fpu upgrade board in the trap door.

both worked fairly well. there were some games that due to copy protection only ran off floppies until you got a pirate version that stopped caring, but by and large, I didn't regret that purchase (that I badgered my parents to make for me...)

The reason people bought IBM PCs was because they ran Lotus 123. They didn't care whether they had a genlock add-on or not.

yes, totally. software availability was a major issue, but that's almost more of a political issue in a sense. the hardware was very cable of running all sorts of productivity software as evidence by the home-grown productivity market

And if you can still find them, the A1200 has expansion options up the wazoo, including RTG graphics, 16-bit soundcards, Ethernet adapters, dual-channel PIO Mode 4 IDE interfaces (To augment/replace the single-channel on-board IDE), Keyboard converters, even full PCI Backplanes or Zorro II/Zorro III/ISA/PCI backplanes which support many modern graphics cards, among other things.

And if you can still find them, the A1200 has expansion options up the wazoo, including RTG graphics, 16-bit soundcards, Ethernet adapters, dual-channel PIO Mode 4 IDE interfaces (To augment/replace the single-channel on-board IDE), Keyboard converters, even full PCI Backplanes or Zorro II/Zorro III/ISA/PCI backplanes which support many modern graphics cards, among other things.

And if you can still find them, the A1200 has expansion options up the wazoo, including RTG graphics, 16-bit soundcards, Ethernet adapters, dual-channel PIO Mode 4 IDE interfaces (To augment/replace the single-channel on-board IDE), Keyboard converters, even full PCI Backplanes or Zorro II/Zorro III/ISA/PCI backplanes which support many modern graphics cards, among other things.

And if you can still find them, the A1200 has expansion options up the wazoo, including RTG graphics, 16-bit soundcards, Ethernet adapters, dual-channel PIO Mode 4 IDE interfaces (To augment/replace the single-channel on-board IDE), Keyboard converters, even full PCI Backplanes or Zorro II/Zorro III/ISA/PCI backplanes which support many modern graphics cards, among other things.

And if you can still find them, the A1200 has expansion options up the wazoo, including RTG graphics, 16-bit soundcards, Ethernet adapters, dual-channel PIO Mode 4 IDE interfaces (To augment/replace the single-channel on-board IDE), Keyboard converters, even full PCI Backplanes or Zorro II/Zorro III/ISA/PCI backplanes which support many modern graphics cards, among other things.

And if you can still find them, the A1200 has expansion options up the wazoo, including RTG graphics, 16-bit soundcards, Ethernet adapters, dual-channel PIO Mode 4 IDE interfaces (To augment/replace the single-channel on-board IDE), Keyboard converters, even full PCI Backplanes or Zorro II/Zorro III/ISA/PCI backplanes which support many modern graphics cards, among other things.

And if you can still find them, the A1200 has expansion options up the wazoo, including RTG graphics, 16-bit soundcards, Ethernet adapters, dual-channel PIO Mode 4 IDE interfaces (To augment/replace the single-channel on-board IDE), Keyboard converters, even full PCI Backplanes or Zorro II/Zorro III/ISA/PCI backplanes which support many modern graphics cards, among other things.