<s>
The	O
AAA	B-Device
chipset	I-Device
(	O
Advanced	B-Device
Amiga	I-Device
Architecture	I-Device
)	O
was	O
intended	O
to	O
be	O
the	O
next-generation	O
Amiga	B-Device
multimedia	O
system	O
designed	O
by	O
Commodore	O
International	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
At	O
the	O
same	O
time	O
AAA	O
started	O
first	O
silicon	O
testing	O
,	O
the	O
next	O
generation	O
Commodore	O
chipset	B-Device
project	O
was	O
in	O
progress	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
While	O
AAA	O
was	O
a	O
reinvention	O
and	O
huge	O
upgrade	O
of	O
the	O
Amiga	B-Device
architecture	O
,	O
project	O
Hombre	B-Device
was	O
essentially	O
a	O
clean	O
slate	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
took	O
what	O
was	O
learned	O
from	O
Amiga	B-Device
and	O
went	O
in	O
new	O
directions	O
,	O
which	O
included	O
an	O
on-chip	O
CPU	B-Device
with	O
a	O
custom	O
3D	O
instruction	O
set	O
,	O
16-bit	O
and	O
24-bit	O
chunky	B-General_Concept
pixel	O
display	O
,	O
and	O
up	O
to	O
four	O
16-bit	O
playfields	O
running	O
simultaneously	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Hombre	B-Device
also	O
embraced	O
the	O
PCI	B-Protocol
bus	I-Protocol
,	O
which	O
was	O
seen	O
as	O
the	O
future	O
for	O
main	O
board	O
interconnect	O
and	O
expansion	O
going	O
forward	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
32-bit	O
and	O
64-bit	B-Device
graphics	O
bus	O
options	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
256	O
deep	O
CLUT	B-Data_Structure
entries	O
25-bit	O
wide	O
each	O
(	O
256	O
indirect	O
colors	O
indexed	O
through	O
24-bit	O
palette	B-Data_Structure
with	O
extra	O
genlock	O
bit	O
like	O
AGA	B-Device
has	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
This	O
mode	O
runs	O
in	O
the	O
native	O
AmigaOS	B-Application
display	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Direct	O
16	O
bit-planes	O
planar	B-Device
pixels	O
without	O
CLUT	B-Data_Structure
entries	O
,	O
since	O
this	O
mode	O
does	O
n't	O
contain	O
a	O
palette	B-Data_Structure
or	O
a	O
CLUT	B-Data_Structure
it	O
requires	O
some	O
kind	O
of	O
ReTargetable	O
Graphics	O
(	O
RTG	O
)	O
driver	O
like	O
chunky	B-General_Concept
modes	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
New	O
Agnus/Alice	O
replacement	O
chip	O
'	O
Andrea	O
 '	O
with	O
an	O
updated	O
32-bit	O
blitter	B-General_Concept
and	O
Copper	O
which	O
can	O
handle	O
chunky	B-General_Concept
pixels	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Linda	O
also	O
decompresses	O
two	O
new	O
packed	B-General_Concept
pixels	I-General_Concept
(	O
PACKLUT	O
,	O
PACKHY	O
)	O
on	O
the	O
fly	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Direct	O
Chunky	B-General_Concept
16-bit	O
pixels	O
(	O
15	O
bits	O
for	O
32768	O
colors	O
and	O
1	O
bit	O
for	O
genlock	O
overlay	O
)	O
,	O
provided	O
by	O
custom	O
chip	O
'	O
Monica	O
 '	O
,	O
this	O
mode	O
requires	O
RTG	O
driver	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
New	O
24-bit	O
hybrid	O
mode	O
(	O
with	O
a	O
chunky/planar	O
properties	O
)	O
consisted	O
of	O
3	O
byte-planes	O
of	O
8	O
bit	O
chunks	O
each	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Like	O
chunky	B-General_Concept
modes	O
it	O
requires	O
RTG	O
driver	O
for	O
lacking	O
CLUT	B-Data_Structure
.	O
</s>
<s>
New	O
8/4/2	O
bit	O
Half-Chunky	O
Graphics	O
Mode	O
which	O
indirect	O
through	O
CLUT	B-Data_Structure
like	O
8-bit	O
planar	B-Device
modes	O
do	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
New	O
packed	O
(	O
compressed	O
)	O
pixels	O
(	O
2-bit	O
PACKLUT	O
and	O
4-bit	O
PACKHY	O
)	O
decompressed	O
by	O
Linda	O
to	O
8-bit	O
half-chunky	O
or	O
24-bit	O
Hybrid	O
pixels	O
respectively	O
,	O
used	O
for	O
speeding	O
up	O
animations	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
reversible	O
pixel	O
clock	O
for	O
a	O
frame	O
grabber	O
(	O
a	O
video	B-General_Concept
capture	I-General_Concept
device	O
)	O
in	O
chunky	B-General_Concept
modes	O
(	O
this	O
only	O
work	O
with	O
VRAM	O
systems	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
New	O
Hold-and-Modify	O
modes	O
(	O
HAM-8	O
chunky	B-General_Concept
and	O
HAM-10	O
for	O
24bit	O
/	O
16.8	O
million	O
colours	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
12x	O
to	O
20x	O
memory	O
bandwidth	O
of	O
Chip	B-Device
RAM	I-Device
access	O
of	O
ECS	B-Device
.	O
</s>
<s>
8x	O
blitter	B-General_Concept
speed	O
increase	O
of	O
AGA/ECS	O
blitter	B-General_Concept
.	O
</s>
<s>
Direct	O
support	O
for	O
raw	O
floppy	B-Device
disks	I-Device
(	O
2.88	O
MB	O
IBM-style-formatted	O
and	O
all	O
known	O
format	O
including	O
Mac	B-Device
floppies	B-Device
)	O
,	O
with	O
a	O
direct	O
interface	O
to	O
a	O
raw	O
CD-ROM	B-Device
drive	O
or	O
Digital	O
Audio	O
Tape	O
(	O
DAT	O
)	O
and	O
a	O
digital	O
radio	O
interface	O
,	O
managed	O
by	O
Mary	O
chip	O
(	O
port	O
and	O
audio	O
peripheral	O
controller	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Asynchronous	O
design	O
managed	O
by	O
Linda	O
and	O
Andrea	O
makes	O
AAA	O
pixel	O
clock	O
independent	O
of	O
its	O
bus	O
clock	O
so	O
the	O
chipset	B-Device
can	O
work	O
with	O
any	O
CPU	B-Device
(	O
including	O
any	O
RISC	B-Architecture
processor	I-Architecture
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
chipset	B-Device
would	O
include	O
up	O
to	O
1	O
million	O
transistors	B-Application
in	O
its	O
64-bit	B-Device
dual-system	O
configuration	O
(	O
total	O
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Up	O
to	O
ChipRAM	B-Device
(	O
graphics	O
memory	O
)	O
in	O
dual-systems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Two	O
four-byte	O
buffered	O
FIFO	B-Operating_System
serial	O
UARTs	O
,	O
one	O
of	O
these	O
UART	O
is	O
in	O
the	O
same	O
RGA	O
address	O
as	O
the	O
original	O
Paula	O
UART	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
40	O
on-demand	O
DMA	B-General_Concept
channels	O
dynamically	O
allocated	O
by	O
Andrea	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
64-bit	B-Device
pixel	O
bus	O
with	O
114	O
MHz	O
pixel	O
clock	O
in	O
dual	O
systems	O
which	O
makes	O
1280x1024	O
@72Hz	O
screens	O
possible	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
The	O
initial	O
chipset	B-Device
run	O
has	O
a	O
number	O
of	O
early	O
chip	O
problems	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
There	O
was	O
a	O
bug	O
in	O
the	O
Andrea	O
bus	O
control	O
logic	O
that	O
prevented	O
Andrea	O
's	O
data	O
bus	O
from	O
going	O
tri-state	O
during	O
DMA	B-General_Concept
reads	O
from	O
the	O
other	O
chips	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Three	O
prototypes	O
called	O
'	O
Nyx	B-Device
 '	O
,	O
meaning	O
"	O
night	O
"	O
in	O
Classical	O
Greek	O
,	O
were	O
built	O
as	O
technology	O
demonstrators	O
and	O
debugger	O
boards	O
for	O
the	O
new	O
chips	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
However	O
Nyx	B-Device
was	O
never	O
intended	O
as	O
the	O
final	O
production	O
machine	O
,	O
AAA	O
systems	O
would	O
have	O
been	O
based	O
around	O
the	O
Acutiator	O
architecture	O
designed	O
by	O
Dave	O
Haynie	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Rather	O
,	O
the	O
Nyx	B-Device
system	O
was	O
a	O
test	O
bed	O
for	O
the	O
AAA	O
chips	O
and	O
some	O
other	O
new	O
ideas	O
at	O
Commodore	O
,	O
including	O
custom	O
memory	O
modules	O
for	O
Chip	B-Device
RAM	I-Device
,	O
Kickstart	O
ROM	O
on	O
a	O
module	O
(	O
with	O
support	O
for	O
Flash	O
)	O
,	O
a	O
multiple	O
simultaneous	O
pixel	O
clock	O
system	O
,	O
a	O
low	O
cost	O
wired	O
,	O
self-terminating	O
point	O
to	O
point	O
LAN	O
,	O
</s>
<s>
Commodore	O
declared	O
bankruptcy	O
before	O
designs	O
were	O
completed	O
;	O
some	O
of	O
the	O
focus	O
on	O
AAA	O
chips	O
moved	O
to	O
creating	O
a	O
radically	O
different	O
64-bit	B-Device
design	O
based	O
on	O
a	O
modified	O
PA-RISC	B-Device
7150	O
CPU	B-Device
with	O
added	O
graphics	O
instructions	O
and	O
video	O
pipelines	O
(	O
See	O
Hombre	B-Device
chipset	I-Device
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Numerous	O
plans	O
for	O
purchasing	O
Amiga	B-Device
and	O
salvaging	O
the	O
technology	O
came	O
and	O
went	O
after	O
Commodore	O
's	O
demise	O
;	O
all	O
of	O
them	O
including	O
the	O
realization	O
that	O
for	O
the	O
Amiga	B-Device
to	O
stay	O
competitive	O
,	O
the	O
development	O
and	O
release	O
of	O
AAA	O
or	O
Hombre	B-Device
would	O
have	O
to	O
be	O
one	O
of	O
their	O
overriding	O
goals	O
.	O
</s>
