On 8/30/22 13:34, Your Name wrote:
On 2022-08-30 14:26:34 +0000, KP KP said:
On Friday, June 17, 1994 at 3:50:45 AM UTC-7, Drago Fiser wrote:
In article <2ta4l0...@maz4.sma.ch>, o...@sma.ch (Valerio Ortelli)
writes:
I'm waiting the A5000 for long time. Never mind the name, A6000,
A7000 or
whatever. I just know one thing: if a day the next Amiga will come
to the
market, I will buy it. I will not check and compare anything, I will
not
discuss on the price. I will just buy.
And you know why? ..... I know.
Are we going to have that privilege of you telling us what you know?
still waiting.
You can actually buy a supposed "AmigaONE X5000", but the reality is
that it's just a crappy, bog-standard PC (albeit using PowerPC chips
rather than Intel / AMD) running what is called "AmigaOS" ... it has
nothing to do with the real Amiga, no custom chips, etc., so is"Amiga"
in name only.
<http://www.a-eon.com/?page=x5000>
<https://www.amigaos.net>
It's only marginally better than the awful Windows PC boxes running an
Amiga emulator.
Amiga, like Commodore, is long dead. :-(
Amiga and Commodore live forever in the hearts and minds of former users and current users. Amiga was th
e friendliest computer of the 1980s.
Custom chips were a necessity in the days when whoever designed
the PC and its clone thought 4 colors were enough for anyone. Nowadays
we have graphic cards that beat the old custom chips all hollow.
The retreat from the idea of the x86 chips and specific hardware
to run a new AmigaOS spelled the end of the production but with Linux
and a 5 or 10 year old laptop you can do pretty much everything that
the Amiga could begin to do. You can even do it with an emulator
with a JIT scheme that used to be available. I saw it running in
about 2000 at AmiWest in Sacramento, California on a 500 MHz laptop.
The Amiga was a product of its time and the idea of Home Computers, the OS lacked memory protection and the motherboards
varied in the A2000 series widely and had to be brought up to
then current specs. I thought that it was the most wonderful
tool I had ever seen at the time. But then I had used the PC
the C=64 and C=128 using the built-in OS, GEOS and CPM.
My "Amiga" these days is PCLinuxOS 64 currently on my
latest Dell Latitude E7450 dual core i7, 16 GB ram, 500 GB SSD,
KDE Plasma 5, Linux 5.19.4. and forum as good as comp.system.amiga.*
ever was.
The original hardware is best for the old Amiga games
which I could never afford and had no interest in any case.
I used it for writing and even book-keeping.
bliss - 85 this year.
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