Haynie's Garage Sale

[mailman2]

 For one, you can claim real Amiga cred there -- doing things the Amiga way.

Doing everything by the processor is Amiga way.
For 20 years, since the time when some lazy morons from Commodore left a 16-bit access to the bliter.  So that the AGA blitter was slower in some operations, than 68020, and much slower than 68030.

You're not just a PC with a PowerPC CPU and some VGA chip trying to make the claim of being an Amiga.

  If you do not like the idea of the Amiga as a PC with a different processor than the x86, there was a time when you could change that.

Why, not in 1991 ?

You could add 16-bit (65536 colors) chunky mode to AGA, when you worked on AGA.

Since this was not done, the AGA chips were crap compared to what was in 1992 in PC, Mac, Atari.

Because the Aga chips were crap, the external graphics card based on pc chips were in Amiga absolutely necessary.

[mailman2]

Yup. The only PPCs you'll ever be able to get are optimized for network switches, the sort of stuff that Motorola puts out.

Freescale still produces and sells G4 (E600).  

Now, if someone made a complete PPC Amiga system, complete with AmigaOS 4.x or whatever, and sold it for $300-$400, I don't think anyone could complain too much that it doesn't meet the performance specs of a $200 x86-based Netbook (which it won't).  

For $ 200 you can only get a x86 notebook based on the Atom, slower than G4.

The one exception is the traditional Amiga pro-market stuff: graphics and video. You need all the CPU cycles you can get for that.  

You need all the GPU cycles you can get for that.

My main machine at home is a six core AMD 1090T running at 3.2GHz. I ran an HD video render last night, something like six hours on that machine.  

You should buy the software, which would benefit from the GPU. Used to processing video my 3 year old graphics card is doing circles around my Athlon.

[mailman2]

Mailman2,

Do you honestly think that the engineers at Commodore were in controll of their budgets and for authorising development and production? No point in attacking Dave, you twat.

Fuck off, you whore.