What would an Amiga be today?

[AeroMan]

How it would be ?


... It would be great !!! Only Amiga would make it possible !


Now for the serious part:

I believe it would be something similar to a PS3 with mouse and keyboard. Why?

-It is quite cheap.
-It is innovative and powerful
-It is a hell of a game machine also :lol:
-Doesn't this looks like A1200/A4000/CD32 way?  Same platform for the cheap computer and the games console, plus the big box brother

They might have used a different processor. A PA-Risc perhaps, but with Commodore and Apple buying PPCs from IBM maybe the history could have been different and they might have ended up everyone together with Sony going to Cell, as the volume would raise.
They tried x86 PC market, and that was a bad experience to Commodore, so I believe a x86 Amiga is something they wouldn't try before 2000-something. With a Cell, x86 might even not be a good idea.

Who knows...

[AeroMan]

persia wrote:
A more interesting question is would any of us actually be interested in a modern Amiga?  

I do! As long as it is still an Amiga at it´s heart and not just another PC clone.

Elvis still rules! :-D

By the way... Back in 92 SVGA boards were quite slow... AGA was not that bad compared to them, but was showing (fast) it´s age. Commodore was aiming at RTG also at some point in future.
And Windows multitasking was crappy until Win98, many years ahead.

AAA was developed before AGA, so it seems that the big problem  was Commodore management, as always. There was some chance to keep it competitive if they went the right way :-(

[AeroMan]

Back in '92, I never considered Windows/DOS a worthy competitor to the AmigaOS; it was OS/2 which had the best multitasking capabilities.  

OS2 death was one of the sad things that happened to the PC world...

Also, faster high performance SVGA cards did exist for the PC in '92, but the introduction of clock doubled processors (ie; the '486 DX2-66) more than made up for the relative slowness of the low-end SVGA cards.

EDIT: PC's got something else in '92; cheap and good 16 bit sound.  Frustrating that Amigas still were stuck with 8 bit sound.

Even with faster processors things were sluggish. I believe the turn point was the MMX chips. They had something else and x86 performance was throwing the 68k in the past.
16 bit sound was good, but there were no popular boards with more than 2 channels as far as I remember (I may be wrong). Amiga's 4 channels were more useful :-D

BTW, I was at Freescale's chip design facility at Campinas last Friday for a training course. They have a huge place with tons of Dilbert-style cubicles where they do the S08 core and peripherals for PowerQUICC and Coldfire. I was almost screaming "Could someone please do a fully 68k compatible Coldfire?!?!?" ...