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Re: Am I the only one who doesn't hate AGA?
« on: December 26, 2010, 03:25:41 PM »
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I don't hate it in itself, and I think some AGA games look amazing (Ruff 'n' Tumble springs to mind as an example).

I think what a lot of people resent is that it was too little too late, and that AGA was so quickly overtaken by other platforms' graphics hardware with no hope of an update from Commodore :(


Too little, too late. After about a week owning an A1200 (from an A500), it became obvious the biggest step up was 512k -> 2MB chip... There was a few nice bits and bobs... But it did suck.

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Re: Am I the only one who doesn't hate AGA?
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2010, 04:16:24 PM »
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Bloodline >> Well there are other enhancements on AGA over OCS, like higher resolutions and more colors..

As I said, it did have a few nice bit's and bobs. But the more colours and higher resolutions came at a high performance cost... Two features that I did like were 4bit dual playfields and larger sprites... But a faster blitter would have been better than those.