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If someone takes the case from a busted A600 and puts a mini PC board in it and installs UAE on it, I have no problem with that. What I object to is the idea of selling PCs in Amiga-ish cases as "Amiga," when they're nothing of the sort.
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Re: Is emulation based x86 machines in Amiga cases really a no no? or......
« Reply #1 on: December 21, 2011, 07:05:16 PM »
Quote from: Amiga_Nut;672243
Approx 200-300 people obviously bought a C64x to do just that, and that's without any kind of interface to use real 9 pin classic joysticks :)
Oh, were there finally some figures released?
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Re: Is emulation based x86 machines in Amiga cases really a no no? or......
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2011, 03:36:05 PM »
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but at the end of the day I'm sure people don't look at a Macbook Air in a store thinking "hmmm well it's not a REAL Mac..."
I do. Mac hasn't been Mac since the Intel switch.
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Re: Is emulation based x86 machines in Amiga cases really a no no? or......
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2011, 11:54:46 PM »
Quote from: Daedalus;672393
Is that sarcasm? Any "normal" users could not tell the difference  between Tiger on a PPC and Tiger on an Intel Mac, apart from the fact  that PPC apps ran a bit slower due to Rosetta. Apple executed the switch  excellently, and if the resources were available, OS4 & MOS would  do well to follow the same path.
Okay, I suppose I was muddling things up a little bit there. My ire is for OSX as much as for the Intel switch, I kind of perceive them as the same thing since both happened after I was no longer using a Mac regularly.

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And thank goodness for that! Macs were junk before the NeXTStep replacement and move to intel.
Even if that's true (and I disagree, I got along quite happily on classic Mac OS for years before I moved to PCs,) at least they were their own junk, and not just BSD with a non-X desktop environment.
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Re: Is emulation based x86 machines in Amiga cases really a no no? or......
« Reply #4 on: December 23, 2011, 03:08:21 AM »
I never said anything against NeXT, just that it isn't Mac.
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Re: Is emulation based x86 machines in Amiga cases really a no no? or......
« Reply #5 on: December 23, 2011, 08:22:12 PM »
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had a cool app store-like deal where I can go software for free or purchase.
Your app store.
Computers: Amiga 1200, DEC VAXStation 4000/60, DEC MicroPDP-11/73
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