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Poll : How good or bad was the AGA chipset in 1992/1993.
10p Excellent (Best at 2D/3D, colors, and resolution, frame rate etc.)
5p Good / better than most computer.
0p Barely hanging in there.
-5p Below average / slow but usable
-10p useless / horrible
 
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Kronos 
Re: How good or bad was the AGA chipset in 1992/1993.
Posted on 19-Mar-2023 10:09:52
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maybe 386 PCs + VGA gfx card but at the price of A4000s (the latter was much more elegant than any grey PCs anyway).


Funny thing when the A4000 case was just a slightly changed version of the one C= used for their PCs at that time (which didn't really stand out from the grey box masses).

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Re: How good or bad was the AGA chipset in 1992/1993.
Posted on 19-Mar-2023 19:56:11
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https://www.commodore-info.com/computer/item/pc386sx25c/en/desktop

Let that site shine a light about the origin of most “big box” Amiga cases.

(CBM made more PC systems than they did Amiga systems)

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Re: How good or bad was the AGA chipset in 1992/1993.
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@kolla

The A1000 was an oddball design with it's kbd-garage
The A2000 shared it's design with never released C9000
The A3000 was only one that got a proper "design" design
3000T was just butt ugly and for the A4000t they didn't even bother with adapting the case and went the other way round instead.

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Re: How good or bad was the AGA chipset in 1992/1993.
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Yes, which I figured out just a tad too late, riddened myself with an old AT tower just months before I realized that the A4000T motherboard + various I/O boards I had packed away were in fact AT compatible - I had just presumed all along that they were custom as well. Sigh! :)

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Re: How good or bad was the AGA chipset in 1992/1993.
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@kolla

I don't care which came first, the white front with clean lines and silver name badge looks very classy IMO, compared to typical PC clones. This same theme was carried over to the A600 and A1200, so it wasn't just about copying their 'big box' PCs. Kudos to whoever it was in Commodore who thought of it.

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Re: How good or bad was the AGA chipset in 1992/1993.
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@Kronos

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Kronos wrote:
The A1000 was an oddball design with it's kbd-garage
The A2000 shared it's design with never released C9000
The A3000 was only one that got a proper "design" design
3000T was just butt ugly and for the A4000t they didn't even bother with adapting the case and went the other way round instead.

The A1000 was great.

The A3000 was a bad design. Compact, but very heavy. The power supply fan was annoyingly loud. There was no space for a 5.25" drive. The sloping disk eject button was not ergonomic.

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