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 codenamed the Pandora chipset by Commodore International internally.

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.

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 AGA cooker is a heat storage stove and cooker, which works on the principle that a heavy frame made from cast iron components can absorb heat from a relatively low-intensity but continuously-burning source, and the accumulated heat can then be used when needed for cooking.

Advanced Graphics Architecture ( AGA ) is the third generation Amiga graphic chip set, first used in the Amiga 4000 in 1992.

It was used in the Classical AGA Cookers as a thermal heat barrier.

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 ).

* In America, American Go association ( AGA ) official rules used to specify 5. 5 points, however they later suggested also experimenting with values up to 8. 5 points in both informal games and tournaments in order to gather data to determine the effects of increasing U. S. komi officially.

It was first released for the Commodore Amiga, with an enhanced version available for AGA Amigas, and later ported to MS-DOS, and the Super Nintendo Entertainment System, Atari ST, Amiga CD32, RISC OS and Sega Mega Drive platforms.

| rev6Score = 7. 3 ( Amiga ) 8. 9 ( Amiga AGA ) 8. 6 ( Amiga CD32 )

However, an enhanced sequel was released three years later for AGA Amigas, Amiga CD32, and finally for the PC platform as well.

There were three releases for the Amiga platform, an OCS version ( 1991 ), an AGA version ( 1995 ) with enhanced graphics and finally a CD32 version ( 1995 ) based on the AGA release.

The AGA and CD32 versions have greatly reworked graphics with added detail and scrolling backdrops.

The graphics of the CD32 version were made 50 % larger than the AGA release for easier viewing on a console setup.

Super Stardust is a 1994 game developed by Bloodhouse and published for the Amiga ( AGA ) and Amiga CD32 by Team17.

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.

Under the Amiga architecture, the Agnus ( Alice on AGA models ) coprocessor is the direct memory access ( DMA ) controller.

These missed opportunities in the AGA upgrade contributed to the Amiga ultimately losing technical leadership in the multimedia area.

oc: AGA ( Amiga )

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.

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

Both ports work on AGA Amiga.

* An improved Amiga Advanced Graphics Architecture ( AGA ) version for the Amiga 1200 & 4000 was released later ( 4 floppies ).

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