On 06/01/2019 14:07, Mia Magnusson wrote: > In hindsight, an AGA Amiga could have had HD capability when in a 31kHz > mode without much change of the hardware. It could also have had 16bit > audio for each channel. > > But to save money, the didn't redesign Paula so the old OCS/ECS Paula > crippled the audio and floppy (and for that sake also the serial port) > of the AGA machines. With AGA being started late and temporarily cancelled in a dick swinging contest, it's more likely time than money. If there had been a coherent plan from the start then it would have been started sooner and wouldn't have been vulnerable to politics, but they spent too long chasing the AAA dream. But in terms of my point, using a HD floppy drive and HD floppy disks in double density GCR is much cheaper than us spinning our own new chipset.Received on 2019-01-09 01:02:21
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