AMIGA? MacMini

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Okay not an Amiga Board but various of us here used, or have, Amiga's. I personally don't know what to make of the MorphOS vs AmigaOS PowerPC 'fight'. Clearly in a market of a few thousand people breaking up the platform is a non-win.

I've stayed away from the PowerPC Amigas. I had an A4000T w/ PPC card. It was sold years ago when there looked to be no PPC AmigaOS on the horizon. IMO a good move. As for buying a new PPC Amiga they are spendy. Software Hut wants $1K for a motherboard. Perhaps a fair price in a limited market but out of my range for a hobby.

MOS was recently released for the MacMINI. Actually this got me considering the option. I've a lead on a MINI for under $300. The OS itself is another $150. Still a 'bad' price for old hardware and new OS. New hardware isn't as fast and twice as expensive.

For now I think I'll continue to wait to see where it goes. I'd like new Amiga hardware. Though AmigaForever on my desktop works really, really well for my purposes. Certainly I don't expect an Amiga that cheap. But the ~$500 price point is something we need to hit, IMO. MacMINI isn't a great option but at least it is an option to get us there.

Others as confused as me on what to do?
 
I hear ya. It's a shame they never released AOS4 for the Intel platform. I have no desire for PPC hardware.

I have heard that the web browsers for the latest AmigaOSes have come a long way. That at least is good news.
 
I'm very processor agnostic. PPC or x86? While PPC may be more eloquent it doesn't really matter. My take is the solution needs to be priced effectively and available. I think this is a bit harder with PPC hardware due to the less use on the desktop.

Though a bit of me would like AMD to partner with Hyperion. Then we'd have Intel Macs and AMD Amiga's. A bit of a war again between the 2 platforms. (Well except I think AOS needs lots of modernizing.) So this is really a dream of what may be fun to see again. I doubt it's realistic.
 
Well, PPC was a better chip, not sure how it's been kept up and how the CELL processor fits into the equation. I must admit, I was a little excited (although skeptical) when the rumors circulated that there was a chance of AmigaOS being ported to Sony's Playstation 3. That would have been very cool indeed, but still not as practice as an intel/amd Amiga.

And ya, a 64bit AmigaOS running on AMD Phenom II quad-core with Radeon 5800 series graphics would be sweet, but total overkill for running nothing more then workbench. However, dual booting into other OSes justifies the hardware at least. And with things like VMWare, an AmigaOS that runs in a window just makes it more appealing and easier to develop for. I could edit the source in Visual Studio and compile it with gcc on the Amiga - and all on one hardware platform. That would be cool.

But I just can't see Hyperion abandoning PPC. The Amiga market has always had plenty of talented engineers and developers, but a serious lack of business know how. Except for Red of course. ;-)
 
Glaucus said:
I hear ya. It's a shame they never released AOS4 for the Intel platform. I have no desire for PPC hardware.
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Not even if it's a Cell proc?
 
Speelgoedmannetje said:
Glaucus said:
I hear ya. It's a shame they never released AOS4 for the Intel platform. I have no desire for PPC hardware.
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Not even if it's a Cell proc?
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It's not so much the technology that I'm concerned about. I'm no fan of intel really. It's just that I don't have cash to buy expensive hardware that will have very limited use. If they could build a PPC/Cell Amiga with OS4 for easily under $500 I'd be tempted. But that's just not gonna happen. Intel's advantage is that's it's mainstream and that everyone already has it. That's one hell of an advantage.
 
I was an early-ish adopter of both OS4/Amiga1 and Pagasos/Morphos.
After waiting years for a portable Amiga, I threw the towel in and bought an iBook.
A year and a half later I got a Macbook, which I'm typing this on.
I do pretty much everything on the Macbook now. It's about two years old.

Upstairs in the spare room sit:
A1200T
A1
Pegasos1
Dell Dimension WinXP box.

The honest truth is I can't remember the last time I switched any of them on.
 
I still have my C= built A4000 040. Every now and then I wonder how that clock battery on the mother board is doing (ie. is it leaking all over the motherboard?) but I haven't bothered to check in years. Hope it's ok. Can't bare to give it up though.
 
@Mike:

I know what you mean.
I was going to give my PC away recently but I seem to have an irrational emotional tie to my Amigas that prevents me from doing likewise with them.
 
Wow. I'm sure that will rock the computing world.
 
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