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The Original Chip Set (OCS) of the Commodore Amiga features a 12-bit RGB, 4,096-color palette.As the Amiga Copper programmable graphics coprocessor is capable of changing color lookup table entries on the fly during display, in practice the number of distinct colors visible on-screen may exceed static color lookup table sizes documented here.
Amiga Advanced Graphics Architecture (AGA) is the third-generation Amiga graphic chipset, first used in the Amiga 4000 in 1992. Before release AGA was codenamed Pandora by Commodore International. AGA was originally called AA for Advanced Architecture in the United States. The name was later changed to AGA for the European market to reflect ...
The number of color registers is a hardware limitation of pre-AGA chipsets in Amiga computers. Some contemporary games ( Fusion , [ 9 ] Defender of the Crown , [ 10 ] Agony , [ 11 ] Lotus II , [ 12 ] or Unreal [ 13 ] ) and animations ( HalfBrite Hill [ 4 ] ) use EHB mode as a hardware-assisted means to display shadows or silhouettes.
Fragment of full-color image (left) vs Amiga HAM (right) Hold-And-Modify, [1] [2] [3] usually abbreviated as HAM, [4] is a display mode of the Amiga computer. [5] It uses a highly unusual technique to express the color of pixels, allowing many more colors to appear on screen than would otherwise be possible.
The A4000 is the first Amiga model to have shipped with Commodore's third-generation Amiga chipset, the 32-bit Advanced Graphics Architecture (AGA). As the name implies, AGA introduces improved graphical abilities, specifically, a palette expanded from 12-bit color depth (4,096 colors) to 24-bit (16.8 million colors) and new 64, 128, 256 and ...
Codenamed "Spellbound", [4] Commodore first announced the Amiga CD32 at the Science Museum in London on July 16, 1993 amid great fanfare from the British media. [5] Despite the healthy popularity of Amiga in Europe as of 1992, [2] Commodore's financial situation was dire, and the Amiga CD32 was the important product to turn around its fortunes. [5]
Amiga is a family of personal computers produced by Commodore from 1985 until the company's bankruptcy in 1994, with production by others afterward. The original model is one of a number of mid-1980s computers with 16-bit or 16/32-bit processors, 256 KB or more of RAM, mouse-based GUIs, and significantly improved graphics and audio compared to previous 8-bit systems.
The Amiga 1200, or A1200 (code-named "Channel Z"), is a personal computer in the Amiga computer family released by Commodore International, aimed at the home computer market. It was launched on October 21, 1992, at a base price of £399 in the United Kingdom (equivalent to £1,040 in 2023) and $599 in the United States (equivalent to $1,300 in ...