Haynie's Garage Sale

[Digiman]

@matthey

HAM10 is most likely better than 16 bit chunky because it's  pallete based AFAIK. 16bit is not.
In practice HAM10 would eliminate HAM artifacts almost completely (it already got better with HAM8).

Hmmm assuming HAM10 has 256 base colours set via bitplanes like 64 of HAM8 i think not.

HAM8's biggest improvement was being able to display 1280x512 images vs OCS HAM6 320x512 maximum.

[Digiman]

He posted a thread with attachments on here....

VRAM based chipset would have given top end machines a lot of respect, for A500+ too expensive unless it was cut to 256kb chipset VRAM/512kb slow DRAM true, but this [restricted memory] is nothing new in the world of consoles.

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=52879

[Digiman]

The other machine we had in the worked was Joe Augenbraun's Amiga 1000+. This was probably the machine that would have really boosted the Amiga's profile. It sat squarely between the A500/A1200 and the A3000/A4000... detached keyboard, two Zorro slots, a new CPU socket, etc. The intent was to ship at around $800 in 1992, with AA chips and a 25MHz CPU (probably an EC020 or EC030, but still).

Sounds like the A1400 machine C= UK was planning to fill the A1200/A4000 gap. This would have sold like hotcakes in 1992 for £600ish in the EU as PCs were so cumbersome (Win 3.1+DOS) and expensive (386 16/25mhz with soundblaster about £800-900 for unbranded/cheapo brands)

But as you point out not enough profit went back into R&D AND management was clueless so it would only delay the inevitable.

Now a question I have is....was there ever a Sega Genesis/Super Famicon rivaling Amiga Incompatible machine ever thought about around 91/92? Seems half the complexity was OCS compatibility and hence costs.

Say for example the 256 color C65 chipset?