adolescent wrote:
Ilwrath wrote:
I say the GameCube is a cool toy. But one not really worthwhile pursuing use as a general computer. I've put forward serious real-world performance numbers to back up my claim. Until you are willing to show something beyond nebulus, baseless speculations for your side of the argument, I rest my case.
You don't expect anything more from a Nintendo fanboy do you? Come on, the GC can process an infinate loop in 4 seconds, has the power of 1,000 Cray's, and can play Mario Kart. Of course it can run AOS4. :-)
Now you are getting a bit personal. That is immature considering you know nothing about me. If I do qualify as a Nintendo "fanboy" as you put it, it is because Nintendo has won me over as a high quality and reputable producer of both consoles and very entertaining software. I was not an NES fan in my youth and resented it for displacing the Atari 2600/5200/7800 as king of that generation. I was a Sega Genesis(Masterdrive) fan over the SNES. Yes I did not like Nintendo at all. The N64 was impressive but not enough for me to go and buy one (I liked the Sega Saturn but we know where that went). I have an N64 emulator now on my PC. The Gamecube however has completely won me over as the highest quality system of the big 3...and the company itself has won me over. Looking back, my reasons for resenting the company were childish (I'm in my 30's now) and just plain prejudiced at times. I've grown up. You should too.
Every critisism I've heard about the GC not being a good platform for an OS can also be said of any pre-OS 4 Amiga. In the end, the GC is a tightly intergrated - hence efficient - system extactly like your beloved classic Amigas. Citisize it and you critisize your own past.
Face the facts: the Amiga was a game machine that Commodore decided to give an OS to... Now that I think about it...the Amiga is dead and so is this thread as far as I'm concerned.
I put forward a creative idea and in typical Amiga fanboy fashion, it gets beaten up to death. None of you can agree as to what an Amiga is or what it should be or what cpu it should have or much anything else and that's why you still have nothing but a failed past. Even OS4 and the A1 is an extreme niche market. Exactly how many pre-orders were there? Any product on the Gamecube that appeals to only 1% of it's customers is still 188,000 units in sales. Nintendo is second only to Electronic Arts is producing video games across all markets for the fiscal year ending in March 2004 (according to Game Developer Magazine).
Call me a fanboy or whatever, Nintendo delivers on the goods. It makes promises, it keeps them, it meets deadlines, it makes a quality product. What has Amiga Inc. done? Oh yeah, they gave you $50 T-shirts 3 years later...
If Nintendo bought Amiga, you'd have real games again. You'd have your PPC cpu, you'd have your ATI graphics, your stability. Why should Nintendo be so dedicated to you? Unlike Sony and Microsoft, video game entertainment is their ONLY business. A business designed around pleasing YOU. They only make money by satifying lots of individual users. Not by selling a server OS to a big company, not by selling DVD players and walkmen or TV's.
I realize now that these are foreign concepts to an Amiga user.
Finally,
Why do I care about what performance stats of Linux on a 400Mhz Pentium vs. Linux on a gamecube? This thread, no this website is about Amiga. You all claim to want a PPC Amiga (regarless of the fact that very few of you will actually spend the money on it) and the one you have settled for is still in many ways inferior to a Gamecube. Atleast I'll be able to run my "old" Gamecube software on the G5 powered Nintendo Revolution (or 21, whatever the final name is). I have a clear upgrade path...and actuall products that I will spend money on and be satisfied with.
By the way, I am buying the keyboard and broadband adapter because I want to play Phantasy Star 1 & 2 + and 3 online. And I own Mario Kart, the most fun and addictive kart racing game ever, and it supports LAN play up to 16 players (I play it in split screen with my brother, nephew and niece now). I have a home network already and will probably purchase a second-hand gamecube for $60 maybe another broadband adapter. Since I own a real product, I intend to have fun using it.
Wayne can close this thread as far as I am concerned.