Save Scening with AAA

[mikeymike]

Erm, I'm confused.  After abandoning much of the legacy that would hold Amiga hardware development back, why would we want it back later?  So we can play Stunt Car Racer in hardware instead of perfectly feasable software emulation?

[mikeymike]

@ kengur

In a time when CommodoreUK was potential buyer of CBM International, there was an idea (don`t know who`s) about creating a PC graphics card based on AAA chipset. I have to say that I`ve never seen better video output (color quality, image sharpness), than AGA`s and I`ll miss AGA in AmigaONE.

What?!?  Have you ever cleaned the 6 inches of dust off the monitor of the PC to check your theory?

You must have used some of the worst PC graphics cards ever made.  Every Matrox card I've used has excellent 2D output, the Creative GeForce 4's 2D output quality is as good as Matrox's... I can't say I've noted the colour quality or sharpness of AGA chipset output as particularly great compared to the competition I've seen it against, although that is unfair as the first time I saw AGA was around 1997, at which time PC graphics cards were waaaaay ahead.

If you stand by what you're saying, you seriously need your eyes tested, or need to use some decent PC kit :-)

[mikeymike]

@ kengur

Oh, fair enough.  AFAIK you don't get decent TV output from a PC unless you go into super-duper high cost hardware :-)

I doubt the TV modulator on its own is the key with the Amiga's TV output, all its graphics capabilities were geared round the fact that it was mainly used to plug into televisions, but what do I know, I'm just an ignorant fisherman :-)