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Re:Homebrew Amiga Graphics Card (FPGA, Open Source) Finished... by rasz_pl on Monday February 06, 2017 @09:05AM (#13579482)
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.

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Re:Homebrew Amiga Graphics Card (FPGA, Open Source) Finished... by technomalogical on Monday February 06, 2017 @09:50AM (#13579862)
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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