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[Lando]

gregthecanuck wrote:
If someone wants AGA then write a chipset emulator in software.  Way cheaper and easy bug fixes.  Isn't UAE getting close to that stage anyway?  This shows it is entirely possible.  In fact UAE appears to be a reasonable way to support hardware-banging applications (usually games?) on a new PPC platform.
Greg

You still can't emulate AGA in UAE.  It doesn't work.  Oh yes, it pretends to work.  But it doesn't.  
Timing is out  (which causes problems in games or apps which rely on exact chipset timing and with certain copperlists), update is jerky rather than smooth (You don't get 50/60Hz silky-smooth scrolling like on a real Amiga) and colours are not the same.  And in fullscreen mode the emulated AGA screen never seems to fit the screen properly,  even after mucking about with the display settings for ages.  Theres other problems too....

[Lando]

Anything you custom-design for the small Amiga market will probably be eclipsed within 6 months to 1 year. Got a few millions to tens-of-millions to throw out the window?

It doesn't matter if it's eclipsed.  I mean, PS2 was eclipsed by XBox and GameCube a year ago - did every Playstation2 user immediately ditch their PS2 and get a GC or XBox?  Nope instead its still outselling them both and accounting for 28% of the Games Software market compared to XBox's 4% and GameCube's 2 or 3%.  And Sony are sticking with PS2 for another 3 years at least.  Imagine how outdated PS2 will be by then!

Being technically inferior doesn't automatically mean you're going to lose - just look at the success of the IBM PC!