There may be move toward USB, but the fact that they left certain ports in while eliminating gameport should indicate they are trying to improve gaming interface. I.e., they are admitting gameport sucks and user is better off using another interface. Newer audio cards also aren't using gameport although it was built-in into many audio cards.
Hi,
@Amigaski & Stefcep2,
Speaking of Amiga joysticks my joystick broke for my Amiga 4000 today so off I went to Wally world to get a new one and you know what I couldn't find one darned 9 pin joystick in the whole darned place, so that makes my joystick port mighty slow as a matter of fact not really moving.
Now lets talk about moving blitters, sprites, graphics etc.
I have a 250 mhz ppc in my Amiga 1200, now even though my ppc is moving at 250 mhz, what is the speed of my aga chipset, could it possibly be 14 mhz or the original board frequency. Which means as far as graphics go my ppc is sitting there waiting for a reply from my AGA chipset and it is doing absolutely nothing. So as you can see one of the main problems of the Amiga was that you could increase the speed of the CPU but you still had the problem of all the rest of the board moving S L O W L Y.
Now we come down to the joystick, since the Amiga uses the mouse port as a joystick port they are one and the same, what can this possibly mean, not to many ways to upgrade, this could be one of the reasons that the Amiga died the original designers of the Amiga which started out building a great game console left no room for advancement so as a game machine of that time era it was the greatest thing since greased bananas but in time the greased banana slowly became clogged with dirt and just couldn't move as fast and it became obvious that it would cost too much to clean it and regrease it to keep up with the new banana's on the block.
Now I can add more memory on the PPC board and I can add a graphics extender and then a new graphics card on that ppc board but is it really worth the cost to expand it if I could find the parts to do that today. The answer is not likely, it would be cheaper to buy a new modern up to date computer, this leaves me with 2 options, a PC and an Apple, since PC's are the least expensive and the easiest to find parts for I chose the PC. Now it we look at the Apple, it is expensive, and once again I am left to the mercy at having a specialized computer that after a couple of years would be obsolete, and not only that but I am controlled by the manufacturer about what I can use in it as far as upgrades and what kind of software I can use on it, and not only that but the maker of apple thinks that everybody that uses it is an idiot and makes it so that you can make close to no changes to the system, which keeps me from playing with it like I would like to. In other words the Apple computer is for those people that just want to turn it on. use it and then turn it off. Not my idea of using a computer, I like to experiment and try things on them, and I have crashed and burned more than one computer. I have 3 dead Amiga's and 3 dead CD 32 cards as proof of my insane ideas and I am not going into the PC's that I have crashed and burned.
Now for you PC users, I have had run about 3 contests a year for the last 3 years of PC users saying that there was no way that my 25 mhz machine could beat there 2.2 dual core and quad core babies in doing certain applications, like downloading files off the internet, printing a letter, playing music, and playing video, formatting a floppy, or backing up some files off a hard disk or transferring files from one hard disk to another hard disk, doing a 10 picture slide show and then playing at least one round of a tetris like game where we turned on our computers on at the same time, well I hate to say this but not even a quad core could beat the Amiga at these tasks, not only did I play the game of tetris but I usually wound up playing the game soliton while I waited for those fast over rated windows based PC's to get finished, seems most of them ran into trouble during the format and transfer of files to the floppy disk, while the Amiga cruised past them using diskmaster to format and copy stuff to the floppy disks and hard disks. I know you PC users will yell foul, but it is what it is, in real time with all that horse power the PC sucks. Now I have never had a Linux user challenge this because lets face it, there just aren't two many of them, and Apple users, a total waste of good electricity, I don't even think they know what multi tasking is, and if they had it they sure nuff didn't know how to use it, Apple users have to be the most incompetent computer users in the world.
smerf
