Old dog, new tech - possible?

[fishy_fiz]

If you mainly want to use all the classic games from a500 and a1200 days I would steer clear of any OS4 hardware. Its extortionately priced and you'll gain nothing (in fact you'll lose things like performance and compatibility) vs a 10 year old junk PC).
OS4 euae is based on the very, very old version of uae called euae.
The double click an adf icon thing is very, very easy to implement on any other system.

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@iggy

My latest signature?
Its the only one I've ever used and has been in use for years.

And I was simply being honest. If a persons interest lay specifically in custom chip set hitting software then OS4 hardware is the last thing I'd suggest to them.
I'd rather be honest than try to convince someone to make such an expensive purchase only to find its (compared to other options) a pretty average experience.
A decade old pc (ie. something that can be had for nothing, or next to) will be a better option than the thousands a person needs to spend on OS4 hardware. AROS is a great choice there (faster, better version of UAE), and so would be an old Mac with MorphOS. Granted UAE isn't as good there, but its good enough, plus you can do it cheaply.

Its simply about providing facts, and not misleading someone hoping they'll join a particular "camp", which is the tone the thread was taking.

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@iggy

Yeah, that may be the case for someone who is interested in NG stuff, but I was writing in the context of someone interested in classic, chip set hitting stuff, which is what the OP here said and implied multiple times, and why I kept saying that.

I was answering the actual question, not hypothetical scenarios infused with my own interests.

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To be fair, I probably jumped the gun a little.
The OPs focus has been custom chipset hitting software and whdload.
These are the things I've been responding to. I did mostly disregard the few mentions made in regards to Workbench.

Can't say I agree about PCs not being an ideal vehicle for Amiga use though.
My 4ghz i5, dopus mag based AROS box running the best version of the best amiga-oid browser, wookiechat irc client, Audio Evolution and a bunch of other Amiga software, the ability to run 68k Amiga software by double clicking their icons, etc, etc sure seems a pretty nice experience to me (and I say that as someone who also uses both os3.x and 4.x).
Ditto my Amithlon system.