To me Custom chips are VERY important in a machine
The Amigas custom chips were the key elements in it's
power and success. They were developed to be used for a purpose, and you could directly program them(IMPORTANT)
Off the shelf parts suck, the world and the wintel peec is
crappy, For one thing the graphics are NEVER SMOOTH
you can always see directx glitches ( because they arnt programming the hardware directly they are programming directx( CRAP) no matter how fast your CPU is or graphics card.
AGA was good, and some of the later AGA games like clickbooms T-zero shows AGA power at it's peak.
Good luck tryn to do that with directx.( nightmare )
A good example of current day custom chip technology is
sony's PS2. built from the ground up using custom chips
sony asked to be made. like the amiga.
The ps2 like the amiga plays games very well and is flawlesly smooth. I think for a new amiga to be noticed the same approach to hardware design and development would be a big advantage...
Maybe one day who knows....
