Classic Amiga users, have you thought about next-gen?

[Holley]

Eyetech have their 'industrial' market, BPlan/Genesi have the PPC Linux market.  OS4 & Morphos are spinoffs really.

From what I've read both are/will be equally capable of replacing a classic system (at higher speed, with more memory ;-)), which is what I'm looking for personally.

As for which one I fancy getting ... I honestly can't decide, though at the mo Pegasos is a little ahead because of the price, and the extra clock speed of their G4 lends itsself to running UAE a bit better than the uA1 (and the XC seems to still be a good way off).

As for weather they're real Amigas, no, of course not, they're a replacement for them.  I suspect those that complain about the lack of custom chips only play old games on their Classics anyway.

[Holley]

Oh yeah, speed of emulation - RTG friendly 68k apps and games should work fine without needing UAE.

A Pentium 200 will emulate an A500 fine, so even the lowliest next-gen machine (the now no longer sold Peg1/600) should be fine for old games, which is almost all UAE is needed for on these platforms.

Saying a PC would be faster is obvious, but on a PC you're wanting to run OS3.9 and get some use out of Workbench, too - this isn't a need under OS4/MOS 'cause you're already doing that ;-)

[Holley]

@X - I guess we're looking from opposite ends of the same stick - I'm considering a replacement for a current well spec'd Classic (though without '060 or PPC), and you're looking for a new computer revolution type machine that brings back the way Classics could be used back in the day.