You add a bitplane, you get twice as many colours for only a little Bitplanes were a smart way to level out memoryĬonsumption, resolution and number of colours when memory still was expensive and The Amigas graphics system is "bitplane" based. Some strange product politics however prevented the release of AA when it would have been a This was even more a pity because the successor toĮCS, "AA" (Advanced Amiga) was already in Commodore's labs. When the Amiga 600 came out, VGA graphics cards were already available and therefore the Amiga 600's graphics capabilities were nothing revolutionary anymore albeit still pretty good. This was amazing especially when the first Amigas were "Overscan" using the border areas even more) and is capable of displaying 4096Ĭolours, in "HAM" mode all at the same time. The last ECS machine was the Amiga 600 which was introduced when ECS was longĮCS is capable of displaying graphics modes up to 1280x512 pixels (on a PAL screen at 15 kHz, with Its way to the Amiga 500+ and the last generation of the Amiga 2000. ECS was introduced first with the Amiga 3000, then found The A600 is based on the second generation Amiga chipset called "ECS"
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