Bitplane graphics allowed the Amiga to do a lot of graphical tricks other machines, given the limited memory of the times, just couldn’t do. Examples include ha

Bitplane graphics allowed the Amiga to do a lot of graphical tricks other machines, given the limited memory of the times, just couldn’t do. Examples include halfbrite and HAM modes. It’s part of the reason anyone who saw Amigas in the early days felt like it was decades ahead of the competition. By the time chunky mode graphics and 3D rendering really started to have an advantage, computers were moving to seperate graphics cards anyway, so I don’t see it as a bad choice. Had Amiga continued I’m sure we would still be using Nvidia and AMD graphics cards in them now. In fact 3rd party graphics cards did start appearing for the Amiga. The bad decisions for Amiga all came down to Commodore sucking it dry and not putting any money into the engineering division.