Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Amiga Enhanced Chip Set

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The result was retarget and merge as Amiga Chip Set‎. This is a more complex action than typical AfDs, but all of this can be done without requiring administrator action. This result was decided after consulting Agnes, Denise and Paula. :-) Ritchie333 ^(talk) ^(cont) 09:31, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Amiga Enhanced Chip Set[edit]

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I searched and found https://www.homecomputermuseum.nl/en/collectie/commodore/amiga-600/ but that alone is not enough to show notability Chidgk1 (talk) 10:48, 14 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Computing-related deletion discussions. Chidgk1 (talk) 10:48, 14 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Merge with Original Chip Set and (at least) Amiga Advanced Graphics Architecture to Amiga chipsets. ECS is definitely notable for powering a whole generation of Amiga computers: A3000, A2000C, A500 (late models), A500+, A600, CDTV. --Zac67 (talk) 11:27, 14 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Merge into the article on Amiga computers and/or the company history. I could only found two articles from reliable sources on the ECS (this one and this one), and both reference it in the context of a mini-console. If more sources pop up, the article could possibly stay, but right now, there is no indication that the ECS is independently notable.Cortador (talk) 14:04, 14 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment Looking at books about the history of Commodore: Jimmy Maher's The Future Was Here (2012) only has a couple of sentences on ECS; Brian Bagnall's Commodore: The Final Years (2019) has about half a page about ECS in the chapter about the Amiga 3000. There is also discussion of the new chipset's capabilities (not necessarily named ECS yet) in contemporary reviews of the A3000 - e.g. in Byte. So there is some coverage out there. However, ECS is a relatively small enhancement to OCS, and I'd agree that covering it in the OCS article might be clearer. Adam Sampson (talk) 00:53, 15 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Comment There should not be a problem to find enough coverage from the early to mid 1990s in various third-party books about Amiga hardware and computer magazines (I will post some once I get home). Real question here is not notability of the article subject, but general organisation of articles about Amiga hardware (one article for all chipset generations? or stand-alone articles for every Amiga chipset?). Pavlor (talk) 05:43, 16 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
Relisting comment: There are several different Merge targets proposed and some of the Comments sound like Keep arguments so I'm relisting this discussion.
Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks, Liz ^{Read! Talk!} 21:33, 21 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Two books from my personal library:

Jörg Schimanski, Amiga Hardware ... auf einen Schlag (in German), Media Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 1996, pp. 65-75 (as individual chips OCS+ECS)
Vlastimil Král, Deluxe Paint v. 4.5 AGA (in Czech), Amiga Info, 1994??, pp. 17-21 (chapter about ECS graphics capabilities - the book is about a paint package)

Judging by the first entry, merging ECS with OCS makes sense. Next, I will look into various Amiga magazines for reviews of A3000/500+/600, where some info about ECS may be found. Pavlor (talk) 05:13, 25 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Merge into Amiga chipset or similar. बिनोद थारू (talk) 05:10, 30 October 2023 (UTC)[reply]

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