skurk wrote:
drHirudo wrote:
But the Amiga wins on the hardware front - there is Deneb, Indivision, Minimig, CatWeasel, FastATA, Lyra, SubWay, Delfina, Buddha.
Well, USB and PCI on the C64 ain't going to happen anyways, so why bother. There's lots of new hardware being produced for the C64 as well. The latest that caught my attention was the Ultimate 1541. AFAIK, we don't have anything like that in production on the Amiga.
Floppy emulator for Amigas was development long time ago:
picture right on Amiga.org, but the I prefer WHDLoad+Hard Drive (CF card) combination. May be because of WHDLoad, the floppy emulators are not popular on the Amiga. Simply because of no demand at all.
Well no new accelerator boards for years, but where I can buy SuperCPU?
Well, how about right here? It's a few months long waiting list, but it's in production. I know, I was in touch with them a little while ago.
Hey, good to know. I may consider buying one, after I have satisfactory Amiga setups I will buy RRNet, RetroReplay, MMC+ for the C64, but only after I have the SAM with big SATA hard drive and the best graphics card it can accept. Of course in a cool case. And then fixing the old A1200 with some additional cards, and the the A4000 with Deneb and Flash card. Oh well, may be the C64 will not get any attention at all.
They have C-One, but the Amiga have AmigaOne, SAM, Pegasos, Efika.
Why list Pegasos and Efika? You can't run AOS on any of those? The Peg and A1 is long dead anyways..
Some people claim that they are Amiga relatives (Amiga). Why else they would mentioned on Amiga.org in Amiga context. Probably the same way the C-One is relative to the C64. New hardware, emulating the old. I prefer the AmigaOne and SAM though.
On the software front if you sum the releases on AmigaOS 3.x, AmigaOS 4.x, MorphOS and AROS, they are much more than the C64 released.
Did you just make that up, or do you have some real numbers to prove it? $10 says you hardly pay any attention to the C64 scene.
I see the activity on once a great
C64 news portal and it is not as active as used to be. CSDB with all the graphics don't impress me at all. On the other hand Aminet, OS4Depot and scene.org receive new Amiga productions, even some of these repositories on daily basis. And I visit more the Speccy sites, where it have very strong scene in ex USSR (mainly Russia now) which releases interesting stuff, but you need to know Russian on some of the more active sites.
So if you are retro computer hobbyist, the Amiga is more interesting, and more money demanding too. Because to have all these controllers and hardware is much more than buying RRNet and MMCReplay and attach them to a router in your home network.
Uh.. I... yeah, whatever.
Yeah, I know I can connect only the RRNet to the router, next to my Amigas. With the contiki I will browse the net, or play some games. The C64 is good, only if I can get a proper picture with the Scart cable I have. But my love is the Amiga.
I am not attacking the Commie. Don't get me wrong. I like retro computers, as much as I like the Oric, the Sinclair and the Apple II. But saying it have more activity than the Amiga is if nothing else, a stupid claim. The Amiga is the most active retro/hobbies/alternative computer platform to date, and I am active participant in many retro communities, you can trust me. That's why I stand behind my words that the Amiga (in the classic and AmigaOS 4.x form) is the most active retro/hobbyist/alternative platform, now and probably in the near future with the SAM hardware now available in the shops.
