What are the advantages of the present/future Amiga?

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Exactly right, only a couple people here would even *like* a new Amiga, because it would be so different from what they use.  Forget it, the Amiga is part of the retro world, that's where it'll stay, maybe some will make retro-clones, but it will never again be modern, never again be state of the art.  The Amiga is 1989!

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Yeah, low-res analogue non-HD video, that'll confuse the heck out of most people today, maybe you could add a punched card reader too...

Duh!  Perhaps, I should put in Video Toaster in my machine and use that to my advantage as well and some other souped up attachment that only works on my Amiga.

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Well, with modern TVs at least the PAL versus NTSC question no longer exists, but do you really have an analogue video source?  I can't think of anything video I encounter nowadays that is analogue.  The Amiga Video Toaster really does only one thing that is hard to do in current technology, that is to insert characters in a live analogue video stream.  Everything else is far better and faster on a modern computer.  

I love the Amiga for it's retro feel but let's not delude ourselves, the world has come a long way in a decade and a half.

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Surely if you go to all the trouble of converting to X86 you can get rid of Kickstart!  There's no point in a system rom image in this day and age.

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@DavidF215

Yeah, I did my Uni studies with an Amiga 2000.   Hard to believe, but it was back in the '80s...  Maybe that's it, the Amiga lives in all of us, even though we've moved on professionally we owe that initial push to the Amiga, without it I would be working as a chemist (the Chemistry kind) or more likely dead from acetone fumes...

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AmigaOS 5 = Tao Group Intent

Taos Intent Os
Tao Intent

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Tao Group is now Antix


http://antixlabs.com/

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Tao Group closed it's doors last year and sold off it's assets, the creative talent behind Tao Group formed Antix.  Antix produces a product that allows you to write a game once and play it on different operating systems, very much like Intent and very much like Amiga Anywhere (if it exists).

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Sprites are to modern graphics systems as buggy whips are to space shuttles.  Sprites were a cheat in a way, you didn't have to power to really manipulate the image so you moved a few objects around it instead.

Sprites give that retro feel that we've come to appreciate as collectors of 80's computers but it really can't compare to current technology.