I have the impression that the Amiga port of Monkey Island 2 could have been SO much better. Yes, the disk changes are annoying, but the whole performance is so slow! I played MI2 on a 12MHz 286 for the first time, which should be comparable to the A500. And it ran so much better, when ignoring the disk changes and floppy load times. Music was also much better if you had Adlib. #commodore#amiga#a500#monkeyisland
@root42 That 286 is probably twice as fast in terms of IPS as the 68000 in an A500, and not braked by sharing the video memory I think (especially if the Amiga port is in more than 16 colours). Play it on a 68020 Amiga with fastram to compare?
@nivrig I doubt that a 12MHz 80286 is REALLY twice as fast as a 7MHz 68000. One advantage of the Amiga was that the chipset could actually alleviate some of the heavy lifting (like scrolling, which was done by CPU on the 286). I don't expect the A500 to be FASTER, but I have the feeling the Amiga port of MI2 was not what it COULD have been.
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