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Is Amiga NG underpowered?
« on: May 08, 2015, 06:05:24 PM »
Is Amiga NG underpowered and that is why I don't want to buy one?
I hate to troll, but the new PowerPC systems are getting old or seriously old.
Any chance of us moving to an ARM platform?
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Re: Is Amiga NG underpowered?
« Reply #1 on: May 08, 2015, 07:37:44 PM »
@above
With a good graphics card raw CPU power would not be as important. I should make a list of any difficult programs that I might use.
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Re: Is Amiga NG underpowered?
« Reply #2 on: May 09, 2015, 02:30:59 AM »
Thanks to JIT emulation it doesn't matter what hardware you have on a Sam or X1 Amiga, a PC is going to have faster hardware. Probably an ARM computer as well.
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Re: Is Amiga NG underpowered?
« Reply #3 on: May 09, 2015, 02:53:19 AM »
I only picked ARM because there a not any nice OS for it. I would much rather use Amiga OS on it.
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Re: Is Amiga NG underpowered?
« Reply #4 on: May 09, 2015, 05:39:16 AM »
@ Danbeaver
Power means nothing if the software is not written to take advantage of it.

Power Pc 604:
http://lowendmac.com/2014/cpus-powerpc-604-and-604e/
It is a respectable processor
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Re: Is Amiga NG underpowered?
« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2015, 02:59:27 AM »
I vaguely remember Hyperion saying they would port it to another system at 'the right price.'
If AROS does half the work of making drivers for an ARM platform, maybe they can work together.
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Re: Is Amiga NG underpowered?
« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2015, 08:44:05 AM »
ARM doesn't have a lot of options. It was only an example.
The upgrade path should be an FPGA computer with PowerPC card if still possible in the next couple of years.
Some people will not want any legacy 68k.
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Re: Is Amiga NG underpowered?
« Reply #7 on: May 12, 2015, 12:03:34 AM »
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My complaint is that none of the so called NG systems are worth calling NG, there really is no generation gap between them and OS3.x, everything is essencially still the same. I wish at least one of "NG" options would have guts to move on and create a modern alternative, but it seems that noone is interested.


There was Amithlon. AROS could evolve into something different. There are lots of projects, but there are not enough developers.
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Re: Is Amiga NG underpowered?
« Reply #8 on: May 13, 2015, 12:24:41 AM »
Would there be enough Power8 chips to scavenge to make upgrade cards? You only need a around 2000.
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