Am I the only one who doesn't hate AGA?

[Kesa]

For me it's a matter of worshipping mediocrity. I seem to find that really hard to do. Everytime i think about AGA all i can wonder is what could have been and what they gave us :rolleyes:

I agree that Banshee was amazing to look at and i also agree that the AGA games looked better than our IBM counterparts. My friend showed me what he thought was amazing graphics - Prince of persia. It was crap!      :confused:

OK i know this might be more PC vs ECS/OCS and not AGA but i still think this is relevant to your point. Games always looked better on Amiga's than on PCs. Personally i think the beige box is partly responsible. Ugly looking case ugly graphics period.

But i disagree that Doom looked good because it didn't. I hate the fuzzy pixels and i hate the chunky looking feel of the game. Even today with Freedom i feel this way. There were far superior looking games than Doom. Please note i'm talking about the graphics not the gameplay. Doom is ugly.

I agree with you that AGA is good despite it's shortcomings in that i appreciate the Amiga's uniqueness compared to everyone else.

[Kesa]

I don't hate it, though I do think that 8bpp is the point where planar bitmaps become officially Not Worth It. My problem with AGA is less with the thing itself and more with the way it's become the de facto minimum standard for most Amiga homebrew - some of us don't have an AGA machine, durnit!

Really?

According to the poll "Choose your main / most used Amiga" 50% of us use AGA based Amiga's as our most used Amiga's     :rtfm:

[Kesa]

I'm really surprised on how popular this thread is. It's been posted on really quick. I can hardly keep up with all the replies