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Doom actually runs OK on 040 Amigas: https://youtu.be/fl-gYdkIXCk https://youtu.be/fl-gYdkIXCk But of course very few Amigas had an 040, only the highest end o

Doom actually runs OK on 040 Amigas: https://youtu.be/fl-gYdkIXCk https://youtu.be/fl-gYdkIXCk But of course very few Amigas had an 040, only the highest end ones.

anthk 5y ago
Ah, sorry. Then a bare 4000 with a 68030, ok. Yet, a Pentium MMX with 32MB of RAM in 1999 would stomp the Amiga...
- LeoPanthera 5y ago
  It's reasonable to assume that Commodore would have migrated the Amiga platform to (probably) PowerPC if they hadn't self-destructed.
  - the_af 5y ago
    Probably. Though at that point, I wonder what would have remained unique about the Amiga?
- burntoutfire 5y ago
  4000 had 68030 or 68040, but 68040 was only clocked at 25MHz, wheres in the video it's running on 68040 at 50 MHz.
- karteum 5y ago
  > Yet, a Pentium MMX with 32MB of RAM in 1999 would stomp the Amiga... On pure computing power, yes of course. But - at which price compared to A1200 ? (of course in the case of the PC you have to include a reasonable sound card + reasonable graphic card. I could buy my Amiga as a teenager in 1993 for less than 500 € while any entry-level Pentimum MMX PC in 1999 would still be > 1000 €...) - The OS was fantastic, very responsive despite the limitations of the hardware. Only when I left Amiga to switch to a supposedly much more powerful PC I experienced what meant "lagging" and "bloat"... (original Amigas didn't have an MMU and therefore both OS and apps were written carefully since there was no swap)
  - anthk 5y ago
    >while any entry-level Pentimum MMX PC in 1999 would still be > 1000 €... It may looked so, but by 1999 you could get a Pentium MMX PC for 600-700 EUR in Spain (100-120,000 pesetas), cheap soundcarp and iGPU included. Cheap, but you could run Quake for sure. And MMX did wonders on multimedia decoding and emulation.
    - bcrl 5y ago
      The last real Amiga, the Amiga 4000, was launched in 1992. Comparing it to a PC from 1999 is just a wee bit unfair.

Doom actually runs OK on 040 Amigas: https://youtu.be/fl-gYdkIXCk https://youtu.be/fl-gYdkIXCk But of course very few Amigas had an 040, only the highest end ones.

anthk 5y ago

Ah, sorry. Then a bare 4000 with a 68030, ok. Yet, a Pentium MMX with 32MB of RAM in 1999 would stomp the Amiga...

LeoPanthera 5y ago
It's reasonable to assume that Commodore would have migrated the Amiga platform to (probably) PowerPC if they hadn't self-destructed.
- the_af 5y ago
  Probably. Though at that point, I wonder what would have remained unique about the Amiga?
burntoutfire 5y ago
4000 had 68030 or 68040, but 68040 was only clocked at 25MHz, wheres in the video it's running on 68040 at 50 MHz.
karteum 5y ago
> Yet, a Pentium MMX with 32MB of RAM in 1999 would stomp the Amiga... On pure computing power, yes of course. But - at which price compared to A1200 ? (of course in the case of the PC you have to include a reasonable sound card + reasonable graphic card. I could buy my Amiga as a teenager in 1993 for less than 500 € while any entry-level Pentimum MMX PC in 1999 would still be > 1000 €...) - The OS was fantastic, very responsive despite the limitations of the hardware. Only when I left Amiga to switch to a supposedly much more powerful PC I experienced what meant "lagging" and "bloat"... (original Amigas didn't have an MMU and therefore both OS and apps were written carefully since there was no swap)
- anthk 5y ago
  >while any entry-level Pentimum MMX PC in 1999 would still be > 1000 €... It may looked so, but by 1999 you could get a Pentium MMX PC for 600-700 EUR in Spain (100-120,000 pesetas), cheap soundcarp and iGPU included. Cheap, but you could run Quake for sure. And MMX did wonders on multimedia decoding and emulation.
  - bcrl 5y ago
    The last real Amiga, the Amiga 4000, was launched in 1992. Comparing it to a PC from 1999 is just a wee bit unfair.