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Offline JetRacer

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I disagree. I think AOS and the software it runs is what counts. I probably changed opinion about this over the years though. If you'd asked me that question in mid 90's I'd would have agreed on hardware.

I think the fact that we have reached adequate performance to use full framerate 24-bit graphics everywhere (even low-end h/w) made the hardware issue quite irrelevant.

Adequate performance is btw very close to my defentition of the Amiga h/w in the '90, when the x86's struggled to run Windows & co at speeds anything but adequate, the Amiga excelled.

Today I just want AOS and the apps running on a 1GHz PPC / modern gfx board. And it's Because I think it would provide the future Amiga software with adequate performance.


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@gary_c: that's a tough one. Stuff can be Amiga in lot's of ways. But only Commodore Amiga can be Commodore Amiga. And I think that's the real issue here. As long as no-one is claiming to be Commodore Amiga I wouldn't argue against Amiga Cola not being Amiga.

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