28 July 2003, 13:02 | #1 |
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The AAA Chip
Can someone here tell me about this never released or finalised successor to the AGA chipset?
What was it capable of doing? What machine was it destined for? What went wrong? |
28 July 2003, 14:44 | #2 | |
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28 July 2003, 14:49 | #3 |
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AAA chipset an AGA chipset are one in the same i'm sure.
they just changed the way they referred to it just before they released the A4000. |
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You're referring to AGA and AA chipset. The AAA was the supposed succesor but never got around to production. |
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28 July 2003, 14:58 | #6 |
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As I remember the chipset only exists in software ( simulation ). I think I read something about it in CU Amiga or AF.
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28 July 2003, 15:27 | #7 |
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It also exists in my mind where I dream up all sorts of excellent games.
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28 July 2003, 15:36 | #8 |
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LOL
With commodore you were never sure! |
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I though Dave Haynie was selling a prototype board not so long ago anyway. It didn't work AFAIR (i.e. they broke it), but at least it did exist. |
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28 July 2003, 15:56 | #10 |
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Not exactly, VLSI ( very large scale integration ) is allready the hardware but if my understanding about the hardware development process is correct ( I'm not at all sure if it is! ), the hardware is first simulated on a logic simulator an "emulator" if you will. But reading the link provided by WindowsKiller they might have been further down the line after all. |
28 July 2003, 19:33 | #11 |
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of course, AA, thats the one!
sorry about that.....ahem....... |
28 July 2003, 19:54 | #13 |
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The AAA chipset did infact exist, a prototype motherboard with AAA chips can be seen from clips filmed by Dave Haynie on his last day at work in Commodore Inc's Factories before closing it's doors for good..
http://www.mmhart.com/downloads.htm <- here, under amiga downloads are links to the clips.. especially 05aaa.mpeg is something interesting to watch |
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Actually, you seem to be able to get tons of information from the Amiga History Guide
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28 July 2003, 22:25 | #15 |
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There is a good PDF with an overview of AAA.
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29 July 2003, 02:58 | #16 |
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AAA did exist, in silicon. At Devcon 93 in Orlando, Dave Haynie showed the crowd the "prototype" AAA motherboard (a picture of which showed up in one of the magazines... Commodore was NOT happy about that). He said, that in fact the first revision WAS done, but that someone had plugged one of the chips in the motherboard in reverse, and blown it... which was the only reason there wasn't a working prototype at the show.
I still have the Devcon notes which go into great detail about the chipset's capabilities. Among other things, it had built-in high density floppy support, CDROM support, support for a scanline-interleaving type of technology (with two video chips), you could put the pixel pipeline in "reverse" to digitize video signals, more video modes (no "true" 24-bit chunky modes IIRC, but a 24-bit semichunky mode (3 bitplanes, one with red, blue, and green data)), and other stuff I can't recall at this time. |
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Was it going to be much better then the AGA setup?
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29 July 2003, 08:11 | #19 | |
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Maybe with these informations Toni can emulate the AAA chipset... |
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29 July 2003, 09:25 | #20 |
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But what would we need AAA support for even if it was possible? No amiga software supports it anyway.
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