How would you have designed AGA Amigas?

[Hell Labs]

More like how i'd have done commodore:

Stop developing 8-bit computers after the c64, but give it a ram slot and sell models with higher ram. Make a constant effort to miniturize the design.

Released the 500 and 2000 in 1985.

Make a C64 compatability card for amiga.

Clone the 68K archetecture. MOS tech is right there, so use it guys. motorola aren't doing anything special.

Put a ton of funding into developing a new chipset for release in 1990. chipset should be capble of chunky, and have atleast a simple 3D accelerator that could do texture mapping. Think "almost playstation", like ocs was "almost megadrive". Monitor drivers that include 800x600 and 1024x768 are needed too.

Develop the hell out of the OS.

skip 500+, 600, cdtv, and those stupid commodore PCs. Release the 1200 and 4000 in 1990 CPU should be socketed and a range of speeds avalible. use HD floppys in the 1200.

behold, a non bankrupt commodore.

[Hell Labs]

There was already a precident for cloning cpus by then, AMD 8088/86 clones were already in the IBM PC, hell IBM used whichever was available for the next shipment. Not to mention, they wouldn't be selling it to outside companies, bar ones making licenced amiga clones (something that should have happened, provided they were identical to commodore machines), and would probably take development down a different path entirely.

[Hell Labs]

Ah I see.

But 8080/ Z80, right? That counts. Infact i'd say the Z80 was even more blatant because they gave away the design for free. Probably the worlds first recorded instance of Pirate copied hardware outside the soviet union.

[Hell Labs]

yeah 8080 and z80 counts. that a clone and upgrade in one. the z80 was way better, and not really a clone

the z80 is just a better chip single power voltage more and better instructions, double the registers for quicker interrupt response. kindof like if amd came out with a core 5 cpu today

yeah, but it was still compatable. I think commodore cranking out the 68k equivalent to the z80 would make sense.

[Hell Labs]

actually by 85 they should have been able to make the 68000 themselves

oh wait maybe that is what you mean. ok i agree

Yeah, mos tech could have been commodores greatest strength if they'd have looked after it properly.

so outdated factories they had to outsource the chipset? goddamn commodore , every time I learn more about how they operated, they seem even more STUPID.

[Hell Labs]

yeah they were loving up on the cash cow c64 and letting the techs do something or other with the amiga. No focus no plan for the future.

to the time machine!

[Hell Labs]

Wasn't Paula the one that C= lost the original designs for, which is why it was never upgraded throughout the entire lifespan of the Amiga?

I thought that was the entire c64. Probably most stuff they made as well.

[Hell Labs]

I bought PCMCIA ethernet card for A600/A1200, in early 1995 I think it was.

Why does it have a temperature dial from a radiator on it?

[Hell Labs]

That explains so much. Reminds me of changing the automatic transmission fluid in a chrysler, shifting demons ran off down the street and stole a cornetto from the shop across the way.