Most powerful PPC that can be put in an A1200?

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I had a PPC/040 powered A1200 and found it a waste of money, tbh.

If I had to do it again I'd go with an '060 accelerator and skip the PPC, there's just not enough that really makes use of it.

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Legacy programs run very well on 4.1 these days.

Would I recommend someone buys an X1000 to play Lemmings?  Absolutely not, there's cheaper and better ways to do that, but all in all the old stuff works quite well.

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My SAM runs legacy games every bit as well as my MOS rig does, so take that for what it is worth.  Admittedly, I don't play many Amiga games, and when/if I do, I'm more inclined to do so on my Amithlon PC.

Note I said "programs" in my previous post.  If I was more of an Amiga gamer I'd likely just own a Minimig or FPGA Arcade.

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@duce

windows run amiga games too, under emulation like mos or sam.

Little bit different ballgame there.  Entirely different ballgame in some cases.  OS4 or MOS I can run some entirely "legacy" software sans emulator.  I have no emulator on my SAM 440ep.  *NONE*.  No 3.x ROM's even, no UAE variants.  I can fire up LW or ADPro just fine with no need for any emulator on the SAM.

Zeus BBS is the example I'll use, simply because I run it each and every single day 24/7 without the need for *ANY* emulation software.  A completely 68k application from the 1990's.  No emulation at all.  Starts in user-startup and runs just like it did on my old A1200.  No emulation layer at all.  None.  Nada.  The machine has no emulator on it like UAE other than Petunia, which I assure you doesn't do much.

I can fire up my MOS machine or my OS4 machines right now and run legacy code without an emulator layer.  Period.  No argument about it.

I cannot do that on Windows, Linux or Mac - and while I am picking nits, your allusion to the fact all legacy software must be run via emulator on a NG machine is a false statement.

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I have no add on emulator on my OS 4.1 powered SAM 440ep other than what came with the operating system (Petunia).  I don't play games on the machine and have no need for UAE really, so it's simply not installed, nor are 3.x or earlier ROM's.  I do not have UAE installed, nor any WB/KS 3.x ROM's on the machine at all.  An absolutely vanilla install of 4.1, void of RunInUAE and similar entirely.  Other than what the OS provides for backwards compatibility, no tacked on emulators was my point.  A far different situation than comparing it to a bone stock XP install sand emulator running Amiga software, which was the vague comparison made.

Runs the programs I mentioned just fine, feel free to holler if you'd like a video or the telnet address to logon to the BBS running on said system that indeed has no add on emulator outside of what provisions the barebones OS offers

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To Duce:

Ah, that's what you meant My reply referred to your use of emulation layer. Also, I was feeling grumpy

Hehe, no worries man, we were on the same page, just picking different nits.

Cheers!