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[LordBucket]

So was the Amgia to PC's like what Mac's where to PCs in the 90s?

More like it was what beta was to VHS, only more so. Amiga architecture was vastly superior, but the market chose to buy into inferior technology. Amiga systems used Motorola processors capable of addressing several megabytes of RAM, the OS was capable of multitasking, they had integrated multi-channel 8-bit sound, they could do 3D rendering...and all this in an era when PCs were were running DOS using three or at best 16 color graphics, single channel 4-bit speakers, and Bill Gates was proudly claiming that 640K "outta be enough memory for anybody."

Watch this video to get an idea of the performance difference. Those PC versions aren't so bad solely because of poor conversion. PCs were simply incapable of doing what the Amiga did, and in some cases the PC conversions were done years later because it took that long for PC hardware to catch up enough even to try as badly as shown in that video.

[Angel Of Death]

From what I've heard, UaE is the best emulator. I've linked you to the Windows version of the emulator. Anyway, what's Amiga like?

[Moghjubar]

The Amiga was basically one of the best gaming systems of its time (along with other things).  There are a ton of games I remember playing on it, a few random other things like that one drawing/animation program, etc.  Some of these games started entire genres (and of course, many got ported elsewhere also after-the-fact). 

The only replacement I had for a long time after the Amiga was basically consoles: the PC had nothing good to offer for a long, LONG time (and I even still used the Amiga for a long time too, until eventually, shamefully, it got tossed in a cleanup after some PC purchase of a 'new-omg-computer').

[PsyberianHusky]

Okay after seeing that video, I now understand the hype about that thing.

[Sergius]

When using the Amiga emulator keep in mind that you WILL need both of the most common workbench/bios images (1.2 and 1.3 was it?) as about half of the games available work on one but not the other (games that work on both are rarer).

This is specially annoying when you want to have a sort of "dedicated" emulated computer, with a hard disk and everything, because you still need to switch to floppy-only on 1.2 for a lot of games.

Sometimes just using the wrong bios will give you that sort of errors.

[Krelian]

I have no idea what an Amiga is

It is a female friend.