mr_yeahman wrote:
Hello folks.. I got amiga500 and a amiga600, they are called "amiga classics", because they are old, developed by Commandore..
I never touch or even seen a newer amiga, leik Amiga One in real life. Dunno really what these machine are.. Is Amiga One just a motherboard, to be used with standard PC-parts, or is it something else.
It is a motherboard, which uses off-the-shelf standard PC hardware.
And what about OS4, can I run OS3/4 on my old dusty machines, or is these software for these new stuff.
You can run OS3 on your Amigas, OS4 requires a PPC add-on or an AmigaOne.
Pictures of Amiga One looks like my yesterday gaming-computer, and not amiga-like-on the hardware.
Making a new custom Amiga nowadays would require an insane amount of money, which cannot be justified by the tiny Amiga market. IMHO an AmigaOne is as much Amiga as possible today.
And now about the most important, how about games, can a new amiga run old dusty games from the amiga classic-times.
I seen info about new amigas can run quake 2 and such...
It cannot run older games which hit the hardware directly, for that an emulator like EUAE is a must. OS4 runs Quake 3 too, and hopefully will run other open source 3D games too in the future.
My interests about amiga is to game these old sweet games that I cannot play or get the nice feel of from other systems, for example Lotus2, Pinball fantasy and such.
I have no interests to run a ported quake that run better on my retro-PC
Then OS4 and AmigaOne aren't for you. These systems are more geared toward those who would like a more modern Amiga system. Personally, if I can choose where to run Quake I prefer to have AmigaOS behind it rather Windows or Linux.
