I think if you have a 68040 or 68060 they can have 128MB RAM on them.
The actual memory expansion capacity depends on the specific accelerator card, but even an 020 or 030 is capable of addressing more than the Zorro II maximum.
Could someone paraphrase the recent Amiga developments for me please? I am still going to get the 1500 but am I right in suggesting that any new Amiga is a machine that effectively emulates an Amiga like how you can run windows on Macs now?
To paraphrase recent Amiga developments: GRARRR SNARL SNEER FLAME.
To be a little more specific about it, there's a number of different camps all doing their own thing, each with a number of loony zealot followers that spend a lot of time bickering about which one is the
True Amiga. Specifically, they are:
- The "FPGA-based reconstruction" camp with the Minimig and NatAmi projects, which focus on building new (and, in NatAmi's case, upgraded) hardware that's compatible with the oldschool 680x0-based Amigas. Can run 68k Amiga software natively.
- The PowerPC camp, which focuses on running Amiga-based modern operating systems on PPC-based hardware like pre-Intel Macs and the upcoming X1000 board. Due to the nature of the PPC, 68k Amiga code can run natively, but as zylesea noted, it has to play nice and not do low-level hardware manipulation (as the Amiga hardware is not actually present.) For stuff that doesn't follow those rules (various games and demos, mostly) you'd have to use an emulator.
- The x86 camp, which focuses on running Amiga-based modern operating systems on standard Intel PC hardware. Cannot run 68k Amiga software natively.
- Commodore USA, the current (claimed) owners of the Amiga name, who are developing an x86-based PC on which they plan to run a Linux distro that's re-skinned to look like Workbench. Cannot run 68k Amiga software natively.
