FS: Cyberstorm PPC -DEFECTIVE-

[spirantho]

I think the purists believe that because no Commodore Amigas came out with anything other than a 680x0, therefore it needs to be using a 680x0 to be an Amiga.

Personally, I don't understand this. The fact that an Amiga can use a PPC is testament to the versatility of the hardware and the software, and should be celebrated, not scorned. Just because it wasn't officially done by CBM doesn't mean it's not somehow "Amiga", IMHO.

[spirantho]

I think there's two good reasons:
One is that you can run software on a classic that you can't run on new hardware, as even under OS4 it can use the native chipset.
Secondly there's the fact that people are attached to their old hardware. Maxing out a machine you've had for years can be quite a buzz.

And that's apart from the fact that the CS-PPC particularly is the fastest 68K accelerator out there too, so you get very fast OS 3.x compatibility to boot (including WHDload).

[spirantho]

So where does the AmhgaOne fit into that? ;-)

AmigaOne runs AmigaOS, and AmigaOS is designed to run on it natively. Therefore - to me at least - it's an Amiga. Custom chips do not an Amiga make - they used to, but times changed.

Which is what I said.... though maybe there were a few too many negatives to make that sentence easily parsable.