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Re: Am I the only one who doesn't love AGA chipset?
« on: December 26, 2010, 05:52:48 PM »
The question is ludicrously weighted. There aren't many (inanimate) things you can honestly say you "love 100% without exception".

AGA was cool, but there are things about it I don't like. Lack of direct support for chunky pixels in 8-bit mode and a faster blitter. Between them they would have gone a long way to improving the machines capability out of the box.
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Re: Am I the only one who doesn't love AGA chipset?
« Reply #1 on: December 26, 2010, 06:23:41 PM »
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But outside of FPS games from 94 onwards like Doom it's not really a big issue not having chunky pixel mode.


Any application in which pixels are individually calculated would benefit, including the vast majority of multiformat video playback software.
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