OCS was eventually followed by the modestly improved Enhanced Chip Set ( ECS ) in 1990 and finally by the partly 32-bit Advanced Graphics Architecture ( AGA ) in 1992.

Common wisdom was that even though the AGA clearly improved upon the original chipset ( OCS ), it never returned to Amiga the clear dominance of multimedia computing that it once promised.

ECS was followed by the third generation AGA chipset with the launch of the Amiga 4000 in 1992.

It was succeeded by the slightly improved Enhanced Chip Set ( ECS ) and greatly improved Advanced Graphics Architecture ( AGA ).

For the Amiga, the AGA A1200 version with 256-colour graphics was available on 9 double-density floppy disks.

It was heavily hyped upon its initial release, including being bundled with the newly launched Amiga 1200, although not the AGA version with enhanced graphics which followed later.

An enhanced version, the Amiga 3000 +, with the AGA chipset and an AT & T DSP3210 signal processing chip was produced to prototype stage in 1991.

Nils Gustaf Dalén ( 30 November 1869 – 9 December 1937 ) was a Swedish Nobel Laureate and industrialist, the founder of the AGA company and inventor of the AGA cooker and the Dalén light.

In 1906 Dalén became chief engineer at the Gas Accumulator Company ( manufacturer and distributor of acetylene ) and in 1909 when AGA was founded, he was appointed the managing director for the company.

During his life, AGA was one of the most innovative companies in Sweden and produced a large variety of products that grew every year.

Finally in the early 1970s AGA was forced to reduce the number of markets it was involved in and concentrate on the production of gases for industrial use.

The AGA lighthouse equipment worked without any type of electric supply and was thus extremely reliable.

Most of the testing for the cooker was made in his private kitchen in his Villa Ekbacken that was built when AGA moved to Lidingö in 1912 but that he never actually had a chance to see with his own eyes.

AGA AB, previously AB Gasaccumulator and AB Svenska Gasaccumulator, was a Swedish industrial gas company founded in 1904.

In 2000, AGA was integrated into Linde AG.

Originally heated by slow-burning coal, the Aga cooker was invented in 1922 by the Nobel Prize-winning Swedish physicist Gustaf Dalén ( 1869 – 1937 ), who was employed first as the chief engineer of the Swedish AGA company ( Swedish: Aktiebolaget Svenska Gasaccumolator, English: Joint stock company Swedish Gas Accumulator ).

The cooker was introduced to England in 1929, and its popularity in certain parts of English society ( owners of medium to large country houses ) led to the coining of the term " AGA Saga " in the 1990s, referring to a genre of fiction set amongst stereotypical upper-middle class society.

AGA was originally called AA for Advanced Architecture in the United States.

The name was later changed to AGA for the European market to reflect that it largely improved the graphical subsystem, and to avoid trademark issues.

Models with the AGA chipset ( A1200 and A4000 ) also have non-EHB 64, 128, 256 and 262144 ( HAM Mode ) color modes and a palette expanded from 4096 to 16. 8 million colors.

In late 1992, Amiga hardware began to reach parity with PCs with the release of the A4000 and A1200 computers, which featured an improved graphics chipset, the AGA.

The custom-designed and custom-built AGA chipset also cost Commodore considerably more than the commodity chips used in IBM PCs, further reducing Commodore's profit margins.

The palette for the AGA chipset has 256 entries from 16777216 colors ( 24-bit ), whereas previous chip sets ( OCS and ECS ) only allowed 32 colors out of 4096 ( 64 colors in EHB mode ).

AGA was an incremental upgrade, rather than the dramatic upgrade of the other chipset that Commodore had begun in 1988, AAA, lacking many features that would have made it competitive with other graphic chip sets of its time.

AGA was to be succeeded by the Hombre chipset, after the long delayed AAA was finally shelved, which was ultimately cancelled due to Commodore's bankruptcy.

Amiga manufacturer Commodore International later commissioned EA to create version 4. 5 AGA for bundling with the new Advanced Graphics Architecture chipset ( A1200, A4000 ) capable Amigas.

However, using only the normal AGA native chipset, the 24-bit RGB colour was only held in computer memory, the on-screen image still appeared in indexed colour.

On the AGA chipset the Amiga is able to use 8 bitplanes and have 256 color registers.

Agnus was replaced by Alice in the Amiga 4000 and Amiga 1200 when the AGA chipset was introduced in 1992.

The ECS and AGA chipset could output VGA modes as well.

The AGA chipset also introduced even higher resolutions for the traditional planar display modes.

The new HAM8 mode was arguably far less useful to the AGA chipset than the HAM mode was to the original chipset, since a planar 256-color palette greatly increased the options to the artist without suffering from the drawbacks of HAM mode.

** AGA cooker, a cooker currently manufactured by Aga Rangemaster Group

* CGFM ( Certified Government Financial Manager ) conferred by Association of Government Accountants ( AGA )

This rate can be increased with the ECS and AGA chipsets by using a video mode with higher horizontal scan rate.

Aga cookers can also make a contribution to space heating, although it is not true that they can heat an entire house, despite persistent claims to the contrary, presumably arising because the cookers look similar to the many types of central-heating range such as the ' Stanley ' or the ' Rayburn ' Range, also made by the AGA Rangemaster Group.

Profits in 2008 were £ 14. 4m but had reduced by 97 % to £ 500, 000 in 2009. often talk about how they believe the AGA actually makes their homes more energy efficient, as the AGA does a number of jobs and is not simply a cooker, and replaces several radiators.

Other various improvements to the gas stove included the AGA cooker invented in 1922 by Gustaf Dalen.

I DESIRE that my successor shall, during the first seven years of his Imamat, be guided on questions of general Imamat Policy, by my said wife, Yvette called Yve Blanche Labrousse, the BEGUM AGA KHAN, who has been familiar for many years with the problems facing my followers, and in whose wise judgment, I place the greatest confidence.

Ironically, the AGA version of Naughty Ones was cracked by Crystal ( though released under the Paradox label ; the OCS version was cracked by a group called Kingdom ).

AGA was a German automobile company, once quite large, which manufactured its wares in Berlin from 1919 to 1929, and which by 1922 was manufacturing 1000 cars a month.

With the release of the Advanced Graphics Architecture ( AGA ) in 1992, the original HAM mode was renamed " HAM6 ", and a new " HAM8 " mode was introduced ( the numbered suffix reflecting the bitplanes used by the respective HAM mode ).

A high-end gas stove called the AGA cooker was invented in 1922 by Swedish Nobel prize winner Gustaf Dalén.

A more modern benchmark is that set by Accredited Gem Appraisers ( AGA ), although their standard generally makes a modern ideal cut it has been criticised for being overly strict.

File: Volvo b7r aga polaris. jpg | Volvo B7R with a AGA polaris body, in Colombia, operated by the Libertadores service of coflonorte ltda

Tourists can visit the town's mine by arranging with the Public Relations Directorate of AGA.