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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: on December 19, 2002, 09:14:34 PM
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But what about the other platforms .org sites?
Atari Org!?!?!?!? (http://www.atari.org)
PC Org!?!?!?!? (http://www.pc.org) Strange!
Acorn Org!?!?!?!?!? (http://www.acorn.org) LOL
Linux Org (http://www.linux.org)
Be Org...still going strong? (http://www.be.org)
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Wow. There's news on the Atari site about an 060 accelerator for the Falcon!
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And it's only about £60!
One for our machine costs over £200.
Still, whilst there only just getting 50MHz 060s for their mouldy STs and Falcons, we'll have our shiny new AmigaOne G3s/G4s running at 600MHz and upwards...yipee! :-)
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Here are some more!
speccy.org (http://www.speccy.org/)
c64.org (http://c64.org/)
vic20.org (http://vic20.org/)
and just for the helll of it!
bit of a smelly site (http://fart.org/)
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atari users were always miles behind amiga users although i like atari st,s they give us something laugh at.
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And it's only about £60!
One for our machine costs over £200.
Well, it seems that is for the 060 chip _only_ to plug into your accellerator card. It even says it can be used with Amiga accellerators.
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L8-X wrote:
bit of a smelly site (http://fart.org/)
LOL :-) This is very stupid :-D
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c64.org rock!!!
Just don't ask me why I was there :)
:-D
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(http://fart.org/aliens.gif)?
Has this anything to do with cattle mutilations?
(LOL - those sound effects!)
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atari had the best logo.... I still think its cool .
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I should point out that the Atari Falcon has had a PowerPC accelerator in the past (don't know if its still made, or what PPC processor it had though).
It also offered a non-planar highcolour mode when the Amiga offered HAM-8 (more colours, but much harder to program). It also has DSP and 16 bit sound, so don't laugh too hard when you laugh at the "poor atari users".
They also have a "coldfire" effort.
Don't for one minute think we have a monopoly on the souped up "dead" machines.
For example, Nate Dannenburg has a C128 in a tower with a 16bit 20Mhz CPU upgrade (SuperCPU), 16 Mb RAM (Commodore REU), CD-Rom, 4Gb Hard disk, and a bunch of other goodies. Sadly his website is down now, but hopefully he'll put another one up soon.
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Yea, but Amiga's the best computer in the world dammit!
As soon as I get my AmigaOne onto broadband, I will never have to touch this Wintel box ever again.
The C128 sounds pretty impressive, but which platform do you think has a higher chance of a comeback? The 8-bit Commodore or our Amiga with super 128-bit graphics, 16-bit sound, and the ability to play DVDs? ;-)
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Honestly? neither.
And the top of the range Atari and RiscOS clones have the same "super" graphics; IIRC they all have ATi Radeon support.
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Tickly wrote:
Honestly? neither.
And the top of the range Atari and RiscOS clones have the same "super" graphics; IIRC they all have ATi Radeon support.
With all this talk of Amigas using ATi Radeons it sounds like the new A1 is gonna be part Mac :-?
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@amigamad: "atari users were always miles behind amiga users although i like atari st,s they give us something laugh at. "
I don't think us Amiga owners have too much to laugh at these days. The Amiga is hardly king of the hill any more.
While I agree that the Amiga was superior in most ways to the ST, the Atari workhorse was still a good home computer and a worthy competitor to the Amiga. At least the ST's existence lead to diversity and competition in the marketplace - which is more than we can say about today's.
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commodore_jim wrote:
@amigamad: "atari users were always miles behind amiga users although i like atari st,s they give us something laugh at. "
I don't think us Amiga owners have too much to laugh at these days. The Amiga is hardly king of the hill any more.
While I agree that the Amiga was superior in most ways to the ST, the Atari workhorse was still a good home computer and a worthy competitor to the Amiga. At least the ST's existence lead to diversity and competition in the marketplace - which is more than we can say about today's.
To quote Petro Tyschtschenko (in 1999 btw): "Amiga never has competition. Amiga is unique".
Personally, I think Amiga could easily make a comeback if they try hard enough.
These AmigaOnes are just the start.
When/if OS5 comes along we will find out whether it will make a comeback.
By the original Amiga Inc release dates, OS5 should be coming out now (December 2002).
Still, Amiga themselves admitted they were 18 months behind schedule.
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SmartAlec:
By the original Amiga Inc release dates, OS5 should be coming out now (December 2002).
Still, Amiga themselves admitted they were 18 months behind schedule.
So, that would be mid 2004 to early 2005...
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"Amiga never has competition. Amiga is unique".
Except for Atari STs, Macs, PCs... each have their own qualities, and if they offer a choice to the consumer, they are competition.
Personally, I think Amiga could easily make a comeback if they try hard enough.
If you really, honestly, think that AmigaOS will ever be as big or as ubiquitous as Windows is now, you are sadly mistaken my friend. Just to become as popular as Macs would take nothing short of a minor miracle.
Don't get me wrong, I am a big Amiga fan, and I love using and developing for Amigas (and will continue to do so for the foreseeable future), but to be as optimistic as you appear can only be described as hopelessly naive and unrealistic, if you ask me. But, if it makes you so happy to be so sure of the Amigas outright superiority over everything else, inspite of all the evidence to the contrary, then go ahead. ;-)
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Thanks, I will. :-D
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To ORG or not to ORG, that is the question. :-o
Yes, to ORG is good........ :-D