Would you support this project? -please read-

[StarOne]

I think a computer built like the Amiga would work incredibly well even today. I mean, there's a reason why consoles are so popular. People like custom hardware, and  making a custom computer with the option of adding extra hardware could do incredibly fine.

And why would the custom chips be so incredibly outdated? I mean, the PS2 has custom chips developed by Sony, and that wasn't exactly outdated when the console was released. Even after all this time, some games look better than anything on the market. If you could get developers to develop for the custom chips, which I think they would do at least the first couple of years and then move forward to the extra hardware added to the computer.

I would ABSOLUTELY support such a project, especially if it would be an Amiga, and was backwards compatible. And I don't think adding the AGA chipsets would work fine, like how the PS2 have a PSone included. And no, the PS2 doesn't EMULATE a PSone if anyone wondered.

[StarOne]

amigabill wrote:
>I mean, there's a reason why consoles are so
popular. People like custom hardware

Consoles are so popular because people want to play videogames they like, not because the thing is different than a PC computer.

Actually, consoles are populare because of both these reasons. The simplicity of the consoles and not having to mess around with PC-specs and stuff is what makes them so irresistable.  And I know even more people loves the Xbox because it has up-to-date games AND because it can be hacked very easily. You don't HAVE to do anything with the hardware, but you CAN if you WANT to. That's a strong selling point in my opinion.

I don't think I'd buy the PS2 if it was just an alternative to PC, Mac or Amiga. If these consoles were all just alternative computers without any custom sets, I doubt a very few people would care about getting all of them. Even though the amiga was very ahead of it's time when it arrived, the PC didn't have custom chips and the Amiga was more popular. And I don't think it was JUST because it was superiour to the PC and such, but because it was easy to use.  I think computers like the classic Amiga would work perfectly fine today. If it even had a DVD-drive that worked the same way as the classic amiga diskdrive (just pop in the disk and it'll play), with every single DVD having their own startup-sequence like the disks had, then it would be a killer machine. Just like the classic amiga, but with todays technology.

And I know that Sony have the money to create custom chips, but I never said anything about the project being cheap. But if a large company bought up the Amiga brand, and made something like this, I think it would be a huge hit. Computers are popular, consoles have popular. Amiga had all the advantages of both, and I believe many MANY people would be happy to buy something like this.