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Re: What the hell was the Amiga Jr?
« on: May 15, 2006, 03:58:15 PM »
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P.S. in the vid they also had an AAA board with no chips, what exactly were the specs of AAA? Probably not too impressive by todays standards but would it have made any difference back then for the Amiga?"

Actually it would still be usable by today's standards. The thing would've probably be able to play PAL/NTSC video at native resolution straight from the custom chipset with the added memory bandwith and color capabilities, and also using stuff like HAM10 and some programable custom chip that made chunky to planar conversions on the fly before the video data was output to the DAC. The copper was also very improved with 32 bit and even it's own bus!!!
AAA would have ruled the world, even if not by it's raw power, the architecture of it and the cool "demoscene" coders the Amiga had at the time, that were very familiar with techniques to take advantage of the Amiga's custom chipsets (wich AAA was the continuation of).
I get very sad everytime I read about it. Even today it would be a very cool curiosity some Amiga users would pay to see
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