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by rasz_pl 3427 days ago
Amiga shipped with planar graphic modes, this card supplies chunky modes. Planar was great for ~10MHz CPU when moving 1-2 color images on the screen, but totally failed when technology moved on to 8-16bit color depth.

You could even argue Doom killed Amiga as a gaming machine.

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Indeed, it has been argued. A great YouTube look at Doom's impact on the Amiga can be found here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tv6aJRGpz_A