Faster, faster, faster, oh yeah... More Mhz... Give it to me baby!! We have broke the 50Mhz barrier!

[xyth]

I couldn't agree more.

I'm one of those Amiga users that still happily plods away on a trusty old A1200/030/50Mhz.  Still going great after 12 years.

What's always impressed me about AmigaOS and Amiga programs in general is the sheer amount of power coders can get out of such supposedly limited hardware.

We had all these hardware limits which were broken by clever pieces of software:  "I'm sorry you can only have 32 colours on screen at once". Then someone came up with HAM.

"I'm sorry you've only got 2mb chip memory".  Then someone came up with FBlit.  (My vote for piece of Amiga software ever).

"I'm sorry, there's no way in hell Doom/Quake/whatever will run on an Amiga..."

And so on.

I think Amiga benefitted (though Commodore certainly didn't) from not having HDs for so long as programmers were forced to be innovative and brilliant at running great software from 880k disks on systems with a mere 512k chip mem.

Quake's all nice and everything but give me Alien Breed SE 92 anyday.

One day when I'm wealthy I'll splash out and buy a 060 accelerator for my 1200.  I have no interest in going PPC, it just wouldn't be the same.  I don't know about you guys, but AmigaONE just doesn't really sound like an Amiga to me.  

Besides, I want to hang around and see just what hardware limit's going to be shattered next.

Long live A68k!

 

[xyth]

My post was a reply to the first post of the thread, not to the post immediately prior to mine (which was posted whilst I was still writing my post), as in the order all the posts are listed it sounds like I'm condradicting myself or something.





Hmm.  That was a long sentence.

[xyth]

True, AGA isn't as fast as would be ideal.  So maybe one day when I'm considerably wealthier than at present I'll look at getting a tower and graphics card.  Maybe.  In the meantime FBlit is a lifesaver.

Elbox's Mediator towers do look rather nice but the thing that at this stage prevents me from ever getting one is that I'd have to use a PC keyboard, and basically, giving up 'HELP' and the two 'A's just wouldn't be right.  F11 and F12 are just not any consolation.

Stupid I know but sometimes it's the little things that count.