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Finally got my Gateway Amiga....sort of
« on: February 12, 2006, 11:06:39 AM »
My brother gave me an old dual P3 Gateway server yesterday for nothing, proceeded to put 256MB of ram in it and plan on placing a 128MB pci graphics card in it. It's got a scsi raid array setup so the drives are fast.  Right now it's got an 18Gb Seagate and another 9Gb IBM UW drive.

The thing is, the whole time we're working on it and then installing Windows, I kept looking at it and thinking back to the Jeff Schindler/Joe Torre/Jim Collas situation.  Man, this thing is enormous and full of pretty neat kit (for a pc at the time).  If only they (Gateway) could have released a next gen Amiga, even on x86, we'd still be seeing Amiga as a viable platform today (apologies and best wishes to Hyperion).  Talk about Gateway blowing it.

Oh well, my question is thus: I'd like to add a third UW SCSI drive and setup an Amiga Forever partition.  I don't know much about it but was wondering if I can use the Amiga emulation just like a real Amiga on it (with Workbench frontscreen or Windows somehow minimized).  In other words, I know I probably need Windows to boot it, but does Amiga Forever allow you to work in Amiga rtg mode just like a real fast Amiga?

That way, I'd look at this as Payback for the Gateway debacle.
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Re: Finally got my Gateway Amiga....sort of
« Reply #1 on: February 13, 2006, 11:35:32 AM »
It is an unexplained mystery why Gateway pulled the rug out from under Collas.  My point was simply that from a hardware standpoint, Gateway had the resources to put a next gen Amiga on the shelves.  Via AmigaForever, I'm going to get that next gen machine circa 2003 running.  I was wondering if I could set up a dual boot machine, WindowsXP or UAE (sort of like with a Linux setup).
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