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The Amiga 1000 can do 14 bit stereo sound. What did the Mac have? Oh, single-channel 8-bit. It doesn't matter if it took all the CPU to do it, the mac simply was not capable of coming anywhere close to Amiga in terms of graphics or sound. The standard Amiga sound capabilities were 4-channel stereo 12-bit, which was still light years ahead of Apple.

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Try to notice how you're avoiding answering the points I raised and jumping at any chance to defend the Amiga (it was only 4-channel 8-bit built in and nobody achieved 14-bit sound before 1991). The Amiga vs X wars were decades ago at this point - you could just let it go.

>4096 colors via weird hold-and-modify modes was never useful outside of demos and vanishingly few games.

16 colors is still way better for games than 2 color black-and-white. The fact that the Amiga could achieve 4096 colors in a world where 16 colors was the norm, was astonishing. The resolution did not matter. The capabilities mattered, and the Amiga was far more capable in every way than the Mac. The mac had 1-channel 8-bit sound, the Amiga had 4-channel stereo 8-bit sound, and was capable of 14-bit sound. So go nitpick some more if you want to, I don't care, but I won't be responding to you anymore.

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