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> Bitplane graphics was probably a bad decision. The original Amiga shipped in 1985 and at that time the bitplane approach offered a reasonable trade-off versu
by mrandish 5y ago
> Bitplane graphics was probably a bad decision.
The original Amiga shipped in 1985 and at that time the bitplane approach offered a reasonable trade-off versus chunky pixels by enabling some uniquely powerful capabilities. When Commodore died of self-inflicted wounds in 1994, a much more powerful new chipset codenamed "Hombre" had been created and was working on prototype boards. Hombre had chunky pixels among other cool things. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Hombre_chipset https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Hombre_chipset. Too bad it never shipped
- sys_64738 5y agoAkiko was The planar to chunky chip in the Amiga CD32 console in 1993.