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Re: Top 3 worst ideas in Amiga history?
« on: February 12, 2010, 01:30:33 PM »
Quote from: smerf;542786
1st -- The Amiga 2000
Are you serious? And just how were people going to use accelerators, scsi controllers, networking, audio cards and graphics boards in one box? Without the A2000 there wouldn't have been an early machine with good expansion capabilities. Bad idea? No. Perhaps it could've been made better, but bad is a big word.

The same goes for the interlace idea that someone else seems to think is bad. In the early days the chipset could only output 15 Khz displays, and most monitors (and TVs) could only handle 15 Khz input. Without interlace there would be no way to go over 256 pixel high displays (283 with overscan), and that's why interlace is a good idea. Not including 31 Khz output modes from the start (if not too expensive), now that's a bad idea.
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