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The vitality of the Amiga community never ceases to amaze me. I actually headed over to A-Eon's page. I've been postponing getting one of their systems for abo
by weland 11y ago
The vitality of the Amiga community never ceases to amaze me.
I actually headed over to A-Eon's page. I've been postponing getting one of their systems for about three years now, for various reasons, and I finally thought I'd say yes.
Sadly, it turns out they're all discontinued: http://www.a-eon.com/?page=products http://www.a-eon.com/?page=products .
For all the awesomeness of AmigaOS 4, the hardware continues to be sadly elusive, as it has been ever since the demise of Commodore.
- rjsw 11y ago> Sadly, it turns out they're all discontinued You can probably blame Apple for this, the CPU was from PA Semi.
- baldfat 11y ago> You can probably blame Apple for this, Amiga fans the original Apple haters. I loved running the Mac OS emulator and getting fast performance with a slower chip.
- ZenoArrow 11y ago> "Amiga fans the original Apple haters." Probably just jealous that Apple had decent management that didn't throw away its performance lead. "When the Amiga came out, everyone [at Apple] was scared as hell." (quote from former Apple exec Jean-Louis Gassée, Amazing Computing, Nov. 1996)
- weland 11y agoYou should look into Apple's history a little. Their management at the time was not significantly better than Commodore's, and Apple wasn't too far away from going under the same way Commodore did.
- ZenoArrow 11y agoApple's management at the time may not have been great, but they were leagues ahead of what Commodore had (after Thomas Rattigan anyway).
- baldfat 11y agoWell it wasn't differences in management as much as internal Thermal Nuclear War. Great reads to be had here http://arstechnica.com/series/history-of-the-amiga/ http://arstechnica.com/series/history-of-the-amiga/ Apple was a big bunch of haters on anything Amiga and told big fat lies about their own machine or the future machines that were right around the corner that would blow away the Amiga. (If around the corner was six years than they were not lying). On an Amiga had a Motorola 68000 chip just like the Mac, but the emulator on my 1 mhz 68000 would out preform System on a 2 mhz 68000 family chip.
- spacecowboy_lon 11y agoI remember running a CBM 64 emulator inside a MAC emulator running on my Amiga 1200 I used to be unofficial Amiga support for Prestel/Telecom gold back in the Day.
- david-given 11y agoI was an Acorn person, rather than an Amiga one, so I can't comment on the state of the Amiga community; but as the Acorn community shrank it became weirdly inbred and insular and more and more zealous. Eventually it was populated entirely by people who can most charitably be described as having non-standard personality traits. Every now and again I have a look at the old Acorn newsgroups and it's... strange. I will admit, though, that even at its strangest, the Acorn community never produced anything as mind-numbingly strange as this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szMGxqwfxiI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=szMGxqwfxiI