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Title: My Amiga will live!
Post by: Nagromme on June 02, 2005, 05:33:33 PM

I've been out of the Amiga loop for along time, but looking forward to getting back into it.

My Amiga 3000 ran fine until a couple months ago... now it asks for Workbench floppies which I do have. I'm terrified that I've lost the HD, since my backups are SO old! But I'll get around to trying DiskSalv or whatever on the HD soon.

And then my next project is getting my old SCSI Mac (PowerBook G3) to read Amiga-format external hard disks: I have tons of Amiga stuff on Jaz disk, and MacUAE just begging to be played with. Then I can transfer the stuff from the G3 to my PowerBook G4 for Amiga/OS X laptop fun! And no doubt my Windows PC will somehow need to be involved in that journey too.

And if they ever sell a NEW Amiga OS for PowerPC, compatible in any way with modern Macs, and it has some support for older 680x0 software, I'll jump on that too! I'm on AmigaDOS 2.1 for now.

Title: Re: My Amiga will live!
Post by: Karlos on June 02, 2005, 05:35:24 PM

You'll probably find WinUAE the better (read more powerful / featured) implementation for emulation :-)

Title: Re: My Amiga will live!
Post by: Nagromme on June 02, 2005, 05:38:48 PM

Thanks. I've heard that, but MacUAE has worked well for me so far... and I demand the portability (and TV-out for games) of my PowerBook :)

Title: Re: My Amiga will live!
Post by: SamuraiCrow on June 03, 2005, 01:33:31 AM

You might try EUAE (http://rcdrummond.net/uae) for Macintosh.  I've heard it is more full-featured than other versions of UAE for the Mac, Linux, AmigaOS 4, MorphOS and AROS.

Title: Re: My Amiga will live!
Post by: leirbag28 on June 03, 2005, 01:55:08 AM

@Nagromme

You wrote:
"And if they ever sell a NEW Amiga OS for PowerPC, compatible in any way with modern Macs, and it has some support for older 680x0 software, I'll jump on that too! I'm on AmigaDOS 2.1 for now."


Um I guess you havent heard of The New AmigaONE and OS4 PowerPC Amiga that can Run Linux and MacOS X?

Thats right!  Amiga ...........the NEW Amiga is PowerPC...the latest is a G4 Amiga with OS4 (Workbench 4.0)...........its Got USB and ATI gfx card capability...etc....

Title: Re: My Amiga will live!
Post by: Argus on June 03, 2005, 02:10:07 AM

@leirbag28

And when ACK delivers their G4 accelerator, maybe you could run MacOS X on the A1200!  Yee haw!

Title: Re: My Amiga will live!
Post by: adz on June 03, 2005, 02:12:35 AM

Quote

leirbag28 wrote:

Thats right!  Amiga ...........the NEW Amiga is PowerPC...the latest is a G4 Amiga with OS4 (Workbench 4.0)...........its Got USB and ATI gfx card capability...etc....

And just think, you'll only need to sell one, I repeat, just one of your kidneys for a motherboard and CPU :-D

Title: Re: My Amiga will live!
Post by: Nagromme on June 03, 2005, 04:42:16 AM

You're right, I'm barely aware of the latest Amiga products, other than to be glad there are still things in the works :) I'd heard that Amiga was going RISC/PPC--sounds good to me! Especially if I can get the OS running on my PowerBook someday.

I'd consider buying new Amiga hardware, even. And if I could hack Tiger to run on it that would be cool too. Do I need a new Amiga? No. Doesn't mean I don't want one :) Will AmigaOS on PPC still run my old 680x0 apps?

Cooler still would be running Amiga on a dual-G6 PowerMac (when such a thing exists).

But I'll search around--all the answers to my curiosity are here, I'm sure.

And thanks for the EUAE link. Bookmarked!

Title: Re: My Amiga will live!
Post by: Argus on June 06, 2005, 02:06:40 AM

Erm....you mean on a dual Itanium Mac ;)

Title: Re: My Amiga will live!
Post by: Nagromme on June 06, 2005, 03:47:30 AM

This weekend? I don't know WHAT I mean...  :-o

I may be running Amiga OS on EUAE on Mac on quad x86's for all I know, taking breaks to play PowerPC X-Box 360 games made by Microsoft on G5 macs! :-o

Title: Re: My Amiga will live!
Post by: Housey on June 06, 2005, 05:22:01 AM

Anyone know if EUAE supports the BSD socket library?

Title: Re: My Amiga will live!
Post by: Martin_Lee on June 06, 2005, 11:23:13 AM

"Um I guess you havent heard of The New AmigaONE and OS4 PowerPC Amiga that can Run Linux and MacOS X?"


Ill eat my pants if I ever see an AmigaOne run OSX natively!

Title: Re: My Amiga will live!
Post by: Steady on June 06, 2005, 01:13:59 PM

@ Nagromme:

Try having a gander at IntuitionBase (http://www.intuitionbase.com) if you want to know some more about the new PPC Amiga.

Title: Re: My Amiga will live!
Post by: leirbag28 on June 06, 2005, 02:10:16 PM

@Martin_Lee

Well then, Start eating your pants, because an AmigaONE basically does run MacOSX  natively....at least on the Procesor..........I have seen it in action myself..........and it was what finally convinced me to consider getting an AmigaONE.

Mac OSX  runs through Mac ON Linux.......which I believe is only for PowerPC machnes..and you can swith in realtime between MacOSX and Linux witha key combination press...............Just imagine!  Fianl Cut Pro on Your AmigaONE!  its a reality buddy!

Title: Re: My Amiga will live!
Post by: Martin_Lee on June 06, 2005, 02:13:36 PM

ummm Mac ON Linux isnt running OSX natively is it?
still cool I admit but im sure it cant give the same performance as an apple of the same spec?