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Originally Posted by rsn8887
On AGA, artists can choose their colors out of a pool of 16.7 million color choices. On OCS/ECS they can only choose out of a pool of 4096 color choices. 4096 colors might sound like a lot, but it only contains 16 shades of pure red for example. So it is not as much as one might think.
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True but never forget that Amiga was designed in first half of 80's and having 12 bit perv video was there considered as very good - almost true color - 24 bit was exceptional and practically not present in video equipment costing less than 10k++$ .
For years Amiga video quality was considered as photorealistic and many high end and pro machines from this period share similar video quality.
Btw - Jay explicitly mentioned in his Byte interview that primary limitations for this was limited number of output pins in Denise packaging - if there was 3 pins more available then for sure we could have 15 bit video in Amiga. Having 32768 colors was so close - we can only regret that there was no single decision to replace mouse quadrature input by external shift register similarly as this was done in Lisa...
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