Looking at the web page legal emulation, the requirements are for a real Amiga:
[/LIST]My question is what makes a real Amiga, is my A2000 not real, is there a difference in these computers?
Really oversimplified A1000(OCS chipset original), A2000/A500(ECS chipset second gen), A3000 (ECS chipset, flicker fixer - 2 1/2 gen), A4000/A1200 (AGA chipset 3rd generation.) - slight variations to all chipsets and the OS ROM has changed throughout.
For me, What was and always has made an Amiga an Amiga was it's user friendly unique OS and the community of tweakers. Yes, the custom chips made this OS run very fast in the day by supporting multitasking multimedia but they were not what made the Amiga. I for one would love to be able to buy reasonably priced hardware to run AmigaOS natively and see AmigaOS continue to be developed.
Yes, I know it's way behind in OS design, I use Linux all the time but there is still something about it that is really different for me. Would I like to see emulation available with it to let me run old games/demos/etc. sure but having AmigaOS a choice on modern reasonably priced hardware for my daily computing needs would make me very happy.
I just wish H&P or whoever now has all the code would just open source it all and find another way to make money off supporting it.
-Nyle
