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> Amiga's 1024x768 screen

What Amiga did you have?



You could technically get 1024x768 (with really bad flickering) on anything with an AGA. Check out e.g. https://aminet.net/package/driver/moni/WBHacksAGA or https://aminet.net/package/driver/moni/HighGFX40_6 . The only high-res Amiga I saw at the time was an Amiga 4000 (it wasn't mine, but I had pretty much unlimited access to one at $parental_unit's workplace, where they had some fancy multimedia lab that generally went unused), but I expect the Amiga 1200 could do it, too. The flickering was pretty terrible but I was a kid and I had good eyes :).

HighGFX was actually popular (and useful) enough that it caused a bunch of "flickerfixer" hardware to sprout in the mid/late 90s but I've never used/seen one.


Amiga 1200 with AGA chipset, maybe?

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_1200 :

> 800×600i, 1024×768i (not officially supported)




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