> Amiga’s greatest flaw was not having a deinterlaced video mode out of the box
It just didn't have the bandwidth nor did it have Denise silicon area left. Uninterlaced 640x480 would have required 35 ns pixels, and even two bitplanes would have mercilessly bogged it down.
Of course later ECS added 35 ns pixels.
> Skimping out of a MMU in the A2000 was also a disaster.
Certainly you mean A1200? A2000 used 68000, so you would have needed an external MMU. Not to mention 68000 MOVE SR bug, so moving to at least 68010 would have been advisable.
It just didn't have the bandwidth nor did it have Denise silicon area left. Uninterlaced 640x480 would have required 35 ns pixels, and even two bitplanes would have mercilessly bogged it down.
Of course later ECS added 35 ns pixels.
> Skimping out of a MMU in the A2000 was also a disaster.
Certainly you mean A1200? A2000 used 68000, so you would have needed an external MMU. Not to mention 68000 MOVE SR bug, so moving to at least 68010 would have been advisable.