AAA a disaster just waiting to happen

[ChaosLord]

@mantis

Dude, nobody in the course of recorded human history EVER said "civ is like Total Chaos".

There is NO game like Total Chaos.  It is unique.

A few differences between Civilization AGA and Total Chaos AGA

CivAGA runs in super duper mega ridiculously lores 1985 resolution mode 320x256.  

Total Chaos AGA runs in 1992 resolution 640x512.

CivAGA takes a VERY long time to play.

Total Chaos AGA takes only a couple of hours usually.

CivAGA has NO internet capabilities.  Total Chaos AGA does.

CivAGA has no digital speech that I can recall, thus making it harder to kearn all the different units.

Total Chaos AGA speaks the name of every unit when you click on it thus making it easier to learn.

CivAGA was not created by Amigans for Amigans.

Total Chaos AGA was created by Amigans for Amigans.

CivAGA hasn't been updated in 10 years.

Total Chaos AGA is updated every year.

I am sure there are at least 128 more major differences.

[Skyrunner]

There was nothing at the time in the PC world that could outperform the AAA chipset. Have a look at the Tseng Labs and S3 chipsets that dominated the market at the time. They were utter crap - let alone the fact that they could not scroll graphics or display a 15kHz signal...

The same goes for the sound capabilities of mainstream PCs of the same age.

The AAA was the right thing for the time and you should keep in mind that Haynie & Co were thinking of the PCI as the future Amiga bus architecture - but that would be of real use in the next generation (after the AAA) given the availability of decent VGA cards and the increasing cost of custom-made chipsets.

[Karlos]

AAA a disaster just waiting to happen

I think you'll find that was AHA, an 80's Norwegian pop group. Having several hits here in the UK, they just dissapeared...

AAA was an unreleased upgrade to the amiga's chipset and could have been quite nice :-)

[bloodline]

Karlos wrote:
AAA a disaster just waiting to happen

I think you'll find that was AHA, an 80's Norwegian pop group. Having several hits here in the UK, they just dissapeared...

AAA was an unreleased upgrade to the amiga's chipset and could have been quite nice :-)

Take On me (take me on)... Take ME ON!!!! (Take one me).... (Falcetto)

[Rodney]

http://amiga.emugaming.com/amigaaaa.html

Could AAA be released today?
One of the big questions that many Amiga users ask is would it be possible to release an upgraded Amiga based upon the AAA chipset. They were almost finished and, unlike many other designs, is compatible with Amiga ECS. Dave Haynie, a former Commodore engineer and creator of the AAA chipset takes an impatient view of such an idea.

    Gateway/AI would have been insane to continue AAA. It would have been
    revolutionary if released in 1990, pretty cool in 1992, ok in 1994 (the
    earliest it could have been released on the schedule we had, with a
    healthy Commodore). Today, it would be a horribly expensive thing with
    less graphics performance than any old everyday $10 PCI-based SVGA
    graphics chip. There is simply no point whatsoever. And that's spelled
    "HAYNIE"...
    - Dave Haynie, Team Amiga ML, 3/5/99.

[sgm]

bloodline wrote:

Take On me (take me on)... Take ME ON!!!! (Take one me).... (Falcetto)

You mean 'falsetto'. Falcetto means 'sickle'.  :-D

[Karlos]

sgm wrote:

bloodline wrote:

Take On me (take me on)... Take ME ON!!!! (Take one me).... (Falcetto)

You mean 'falsetto'. Falcetto means 'sickle'.  :-D

LMAO, yeah - you can use a sickle to get a falsetto, but it's kinda permanent :lol: