newbee lacking knoledge

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It's AMIGA not "amega".

You are a PC emulator-boy looking for warez in my opinion, and people
giving advice on UAE and ADFs need a KICKING!

GRrrrrr!

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The wrinkled ork skin that folds down over a PC user's eyes...

:-D :-D :-D :-D :-D

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Wassup KAFTAP,

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I disagree, people developing Amiga emulators really have damaged the
Amiga in the last 5 years or so.

It's gotten to the stage where emulator-boys are criticising old Amiga
games because they don't emulate properly, comparing 1996 Amiga
applications to Office XP and generally feeling all lordy with their
3Ghz CPUs and 1Gb of RAM.

If you ask me, the best way to appreciate Amiga is to use your classic
hardware or upgrade to AmigaOne.

Agreed, it's nice to have Amiga on a laptop so maybe the micro-A1
should be made into a portable machine.

As for emulation, just try emulating AGA properly or playing half the
hardware-hitting scene-demos. Some of the best Amiga stuff refuses to
play on UAE's emulated '020.

I stand by my original comment too, if someone misspells a 5-letter
computer name (which has sold 6 million units worldwide) TWICE in the
same sentence then they have to be a PC user.

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As for negativity how about "EA will never develop for Amiga again"...
 does this mean that in your opinion AmigaOne is a lesser alternative
for companies?

I bought a copy of Scanquix 5.40 on Amiga from Power a few months back
and it came on CDR. The Amiga market may be struggling but through a
little faith I think there are more than a handful of commercial
programs being sold.

I agree that abandonware should be tried by everyone. Maybe Amiga Inc
should capitalise on this, just as Apple did with iTunes (when the
music industry should have done so years ago!)

:-D :-)

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Back you UAE dogs!

*whip* *crack*

BACK I SAY!

*whelp*

;-)

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I like the Alien quote blobrana but as I see it the Aliens are the
emulator-boys who just download ADFs willy-nilly and dismiss them as
old rubbish when they won't work properly.

Think of the Amiga as Newt, and me as Ripley in the powerloader:

"Get away from her... you {bleep}!"

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Hmmm, I'm not sure...

On one hand it's only natural to want to preserve the value of your
collection and future investments.

On the other you don't want to be selfish and stop people appreciating
Amiga.

I do think though that no matter what - file swapping damages
industries. Look at the music indutry and the way record sales have
slumped since MP3. So too would sales of Amiga software.

Companies still sell old Amiga software, a lot of it still
shrinkwrapped. After all, Quake, WipEout 2097, Napalm aren't as old as
say Dune 2.

I'm sure if you asked Fore-Matt Home Computing what they thought of
ADF downloads they'd give you a mouthful, not to mention Software Hut!

I remember at WOA '97 Guildhall were re-publishing Amiga games like
Skidmarks and Roadkill and selling them legit for £2. You get a nice
box and of course the manual that the game would need if it had a code
system.

I would rather the classic Amiga retired gracefully rather than become
some dirty tart that every emulator-boy has finished with. Better if
we keep our classic software for the AmigaOne and keep a tight control
on the copyrights so one day an Amiga company can start re-publishing
legit to AmigaOne users.

DOWN WITH AMIGA EMULATORS!

:-(

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Another few things to remember are:

* The AmigaOne will run AmigaOS 4 exclusively. The Pegasos machine
will not be able to run AmigaOS 4 because the AmigaOne has a
protection chip.

PCs will not be able to run AmigaOS 4, Macintosh will not be able to
run AmigaOS 4. It is exclusive - for us!

:-)

AmigaOS 4 is now out for developers to start making games and apps and
so they don't need UAE to run classic Amiga games because AmigaOS 4
has emulation built in, it's very own special emulation which is far
better than UAE. JIT I think it's called, someone contribute to this
side of things!

:-)

AmigaOS 4 runs on classic PowerPC cards AND the big brother G3
machines.

Playstation2 owners didn't get many good games for the first 6 months
of that machine and they enjoyed the backward compatibility that the
Playstation2 offered - same goes for AmigaOne.

AmigaOne users will most have fun running classic Amiga games and apps
at warp-speed and then gradually get drip fed super AmigaOne 600Mhz
Radeon style programs in the coming months. Just like the Playstation2
users.

There is a huge potential market for re-selling the old classics here
because now everyone who buys an AmigaOne will be able to play these
games as fast as they had ever dreamed on classic hardware. Remember
dreaming of that £600 Blizzard 1260 with 128mb of RAM?

NOW YOU CAN GO THAT FAST!

I think Hyperion are also porting Quake 2 to native G3 hardware, so
for benchmarking it will be exciting to play this for a few months
whilst the real original killer-apps come along!

I think we need to protect our classic software heritage rather than
let it be pillaged by the PC users, and even the Amiga owners who are
dismissing/belittling classic hardware.

If you have a crumbling old A2000 with dying hardware, sell it to
people who can make use of the bits. It may not be in full health and
doesn't represent the majority of Amiga hardware which still lives on
in a 100% fully working condition.

Oh, and for God's sake get an Amiga laptop out! Someone! PLEASE!

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