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Originally Posted by Dunny
The initial post (and thus the point of this thread was to ask what advantages planar modes had over chunky. The reduction in graphics memory needed was basically the entire reason for planar - and lest we forget, using chunky graphics modes for 3D games was so far in the future at the Amiga's release date that it didn't figure in their design.
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Other systems of the day had chunky modes. E.g. Mac.
To say "Oh I wish the Amiga had a Chunky mode, it would have helped with 3d" is crime of the century and derailing the thread, huh?