I used an A1200 from 1993 to 2000 and eventually tossed it (along with an A1000 and A2000 I picked up at yard sales) during a move. I then got A4Ever and ran it on an IBM Aptiva, but the performance was dismal and I ended up using Macs.
I just bought the new version of A4Ever and am having a blast (running on a Mac dual core 2GHz G5 Tower). I sure did miss watching those Spaceballs demos! I can't figure out how to make E-UAE actually use the cpu power though. The emulator won't gobble up the cpu cycles to emulate quickly, and the cpu usage graphs sit at 25%. Meanwhile, sound is choppy, graphics are twitchy etc.
I created a team of characters on Eye of the Beholder this morning and gave my face a cramp at grinning from the fun of that game. This was all just so awesome when I was a teen in the 90s, and now in my 30s, it doesn't seem to have lost its appeal!
So I hear rumblings of an OS 4 release, and a new PPC driven platform? I laughed at first, having been burned by "cry wolf" syndrome throughout the 90s. I'm hoping it happens this time. Retro gaming/computing is heavily desired now. Look at what Nintendo is doing with their upcoming Wii.
If I want to get native hardware to use Amiga stuff, should I wait until the PPC+OS4 marriage is officially released and marketed?
