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ovale · 06 July 2017, 08:19

I think NorthWay pinned lot of the shortcomings. If I have to pick the top two I would say:
* Blitter and sprites without a horizontal flip feature. This alone would have saved half of the RAM in most of the games
* No Fast RAM. Even 32KB would have permitted to exploit the parallelism between CPU and Blitter. This was a distintive advantage of Amiga that was never used in games because not standard. This could have been implement with just 2 SRAM chips.

06 July 2017, 08:19	#55
ovale Registered User Join Date: Jun 2014 Location: milan / italy Posts: 174	I think NorthWay pinned lot of the shortcomings. If I have to pick the top two I would say: * Blitter and sprites without a horizontal flip feature. This alone would have saved half of the RAM in most of the games * No Fast RAM. Even 32KB would have permitted to exploit the parallelism between CPU and Blitter. This was a distintive advantage of Amiga that was never used in games because not standard. This could have been implement with just 2 SRAM chips.