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rasz_pl on Feb 6, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Homebrew Amiga Graphics Card (FPGA, Open Source) F...

Amiga shipped with planar graphic modes, this card supplies chunky modes. Planar was great for ~10MHz CPU when moving 1-2 color images on the screen, but totally failed when technology moved on to 8-16bit color depth.

You could even argue Doom killed Amiga as a gaming machine.

technomalogical on Feb 6, 2017 [–]

Indeed, it has been argued. A great YouTube look at Doom's impact on the Amiga can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv6aJRGpz_A

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