Best Amiga Today???

[redrumloa]

>Real Amiga (w/add-ons & extras, but must start w/Amiga MoBo)

Amiga 4000

>Emulated/Imitated Amiga (list emulator or clone OS and hardware)

AmigaForever(WinUAE)

>Most compatible with all existing software (will run most programs)

AmigaForever(WinUAE)

>Fastest Amiga (Emulated or Accellerated?)

AmigaForever(WinUAE)

>The Ultimate Amiga (which of the above is best)

This won't make many people happy, but at the present time:

AmigaForever(WinUAE)

[redrumloa]

AmigaForever is nothing more than a glorified emulator for nostalgiacs. It does a good job at that but to call it the "Ultimate Amiga" is ridiculous.
 

WinUAE would certaily thrash an AmigaOne/OS4 in speed benchmarks and compatability. Care to compare benchmarks? OS4 will probably end up with more features eventually when it's done, but that wasn't the question.

Edited by Admin: Repsonding to Personal Attack, Personal Attack

[redrumloa]

cdfr wrote:
I do not think so. For example WinUAE will not run any software that make use of Amiga Zorro cards such as Movieshop.
What can UAE can do that a real Amiga can not do ?
 

ANy software that is dependant on zoro hardware, that's a different story. The classic certainly wins. The nice thing about AmigaForever/WinUAE is it can be configured to emulate ANY hardware you like. Try playing some of those oddball OCS games on an accelerated A4000. Sure there may be a degrader for a specific game, but not all.

As for speed it would definitaly be a peg2 G4 (fast JIT + native OS and software). However some 68k software may run faster emulated on an extremely fast PC.

That would depend on the program in question, it would be a toss up between Peg II and WinUAE.

[redrumloa]

@HotRod

I don't think anyone put down OS4 here, however in the context of the question I think it is only fair to answer honestly. No speed isn't everything, though having it sure is nice. Compatability and software base is the key factor. At this point OS4 would be on the bottom.

Software compatability(overall - ie bulk % of compatability)
1)WinUAE
2)Real Amiga(3000/4000)
3)Peggy/MorphOS
4)A1/OS4

[redrumloa]

Quote:
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

redrumloa wrote:
@HotRod

I don't think anyone put down OS4 here

--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Yeah "sure". As always :-)
 

Not sure you what you mean by that :-? I've always had an interest in OS4. The A1 hardware, well that's another story. I was a one time A1SE preorder customer, for about 1 year actually. I canceled my preorder after a year and looking at history, I'm glad I did. Let's fast forward to present day. I was until a couple months ago looking forward to the promised OS4 for CSPPC, finally given up on that. I'm still keeping an eye on OS4, but at this point it doesn't run on anything I'd even close to consider buying. Even thought of me buying a $1000+ motherboard from Eyetech is waaay out of the question.

Hyperion has hinted at the possibility of ports to other hardware. I wonder what and when that might be, WHEN being the biggest factor. Especially with the untimely death of MOS, it would be nice to see AOS run on reasonably priced and reasonably speced/working hardware.

[redrumloa]

Framiga wrote:
you have removed MY post . . .  and the quoted above?!?!

i have NO words :-(

Actually reread the thread from the begining, you will see there has been a thorough cleansing including my posts.

Edited by Admin: Repsonding to Personal Attack, Personal Attack

It probably needed to be done. One person started a flamewar and it got responded to. I don't mind being edited as long as it's thorough, and it seems to be fair and evenhanded(except for missing a couple of the quoted attacks against me).

-Edit-
You know what's the sad part though? This (name omitted) person shoots himself in the foot. I am a registered owner of multiple of this (name omitted) products and even had contacted his (name omitted) company about being a dealer for his (name omitted) operating system. I have far more association with his (name omitted) company than the other (name omitted) company. :lol:

[redrumloa]

@Framiga

No not at all, I didn't mean to imply that. I'm not a moderator here either.
I just meant I can understand why the moderators cleaned up the
thread.