>But the need to collaborate with fellow students on papers, projects (SPSS, AutoCAD) drove me to get a (admittedly low end) 286 PC.
Considering your Amiga's specs, couldn't PCTask or some other PC emu have done the job?
Considering your Amiga's specs, couldn't PCTask or some other PC emu have done the job?
1200/AGA should have the double-scan (31KHz-ish) "productivity" modes. VGA monitors work just fine with these. The graphiti would have offered chunky modes (vs bitplanes) from AGA, for major performance improvement. Else, Amiga video cards generally do chunky.