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Re: OK, we
« on: December 21, 2002, 04:27:02 PM »
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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Re: OK, we
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2002, 05:05:10 PM »
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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Re: OK, we
« Reply #2 on: December 21, 2002, 06:55:50 PM »
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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.

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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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