rod_stewRt wrote:
im not worried aboutcost, i just want a kickass amiga to develop on that'll be as standard as possible as amigas go. I already have a few 120g drives and an 80g drive so i hope (fingers crossed) to set up a raid on whatever i get, its just the beans really.
what stuff do u think i should get? ie, whats your dream amiga as far as whats available?
The most kickass Amiga setup would IMO be something along the lines of an A4000 tower with a CyberstormPPC accelerator and whatever PCI-expansion card that's the best available, plus whatever the best PCI graphics card there is which has AmigaOS drivers.
RAID? I dunno if there is a controller for Amigas.
But I think you'll have a hard time finding everything if you insist on only buying *new* stuff.
ooh! just noticed these amigaOne thingies.. they sound like pcs running linux and uae.. hmm.. has anyone used one?
Well, basically the
Teron motherboards (also sold as "AmigaOnes", to AmigaOS users, see link in blobrana's post) are PCs, but with a PowerPC CPU. Of course they run Linux, but they're a target platform for the upcoming AmigaOS 4. Yes, people are using them as we speak, and they're currently getting a "pre-release" of AmigaOS 4 in their mailboxes.
If you can stand the wait for AmigaOS4, I think it would be more cost-efficient to buy an "AmigaOne" instead of an Amiga. At least it's cheaper than a new kickass Amiga. Then again you weren't worried about cost.
There's also the cheaper and arguably better
Pegasos motherboards, which run an Amiga-like and Amiga API-compatible OS called
MorphOS. And Bloodline here will kill me if I don't mention
AROS, which is a freely donwloadable open-source AmigaOS "clone" that runs natively on your PC, if it's got the supported components.
i remember a lot of mucking about with scanoublers and flicker fixers to display high resolutions on pc monitors.. is this still a problem?
On Amigas, yes, but not on relatively modern hardware like AmigaOnes or Pegasoses.
