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Offline Khephren

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Re: Alan dismissing the handhelds at AmiGBG
« on: April 02, 2003, 10:07:38 AM »
Motorola produce a 66mhz 68020 dragonball mobile processor, boxer produced a one chip amiga chipset, why wasn't a mobile classic ever produced from these parts?
Even today it would be far more powerfull than my psion, or winCE devices. Lightwave on the move anyone? or alienbreed3d2? I think amiga should have produced a PDA/mini note (with OS3's low foot print in terms of processor and memory requirements, it would be ideal) rather than the amiga anywhere they are touting at the moment. It would have been one last shout from the classic before OS4. Besides, i'm sick of lugging a heavy laptop around just so I can emulate my Amiga ;)
 

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Re: Alan dismissing the handhelds at AmiGBG
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2003, 10:10:39 AM »
The PDA market still has room, and I reckon an Amiga would outperform a palm running on a dragonball. Mick tinkers design might have caused a lot of heat disipation- but it was fabbed at a very large size. Reduce that to modern size and the disipation would be minimal. While most 'new' users would see it as a cool new PDA/subnote with thousands of excelent games and applications- we would see it for what it is, not a digital assistant, but a fully functional computer. Like the Psion wanted to be (god bless 'em, rest in peace my Revo). I would guess that alan has a lot of room in his house for computers, or never wants to move his computer from room to room, or doesn't commute (like I and many others do).  Laptop sales accounted for over a quarter of all PC sales, and that isn't counting PDA's. It's a market you can ignore personally, but as a business decision? you would be a fool to do so I think. Rather than punting AmigaDE (which hasn't much to do with the Amiga in my opinion) they should have tried to sell a small, compact and powerfull OS, Amiga OS.
 

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Re: Alan dismissing the handhelds at AmiGBG
« Reply #2 on: April 04, 2003, 10:04:11 AM »
I've lost track too :)  I think Alan has stuck his neck out enough already. If I had any capital i'd design a portable Amiga, probably a little bit smaller than a Psion Netbook. Fifty pence won't cut it however.
     Back to bloodlines ideas about strongarm/fastblitters: that would be great, but would it run all your Amiga apps and games? if it didn't it would be kind of pointless. Also no modern PDA supports 640x512 or 640x480 to my knowledge, which would at least be required to get a lot of amiga apps running. Unless you could get Aros running on a netbook/series7.  Where does aros stand legally anyway? I love the idea of it, but can't believe it is legal.