Excitement about NatAmi

[Franko]

The sooner you all go buy Playstation 3's the better!
Stop this silly nonsense.
Amiga is DEAD.

D E D

DEAD.

The Amiga will still be around long after Playstations and other crappy consoles are long forgotten and buried in landfill sites where they belong...

It's ALIVE, you hear me, it's ALIVE I tell you... Mwah Ha Ha Ha

(well it's on life support, but it's still breathing... )

[Franko]

I sincerely hope that the Natami does come to fruition, from what I've learned about it so far it to me would be the perfect modern Amiga, good things come to those who wait...

(just hurry it up a wee bit please, some of us are getting on a bit you know...

[Franko]

Seems like I didn't miss the "holy wars" after all, some points of view expressed on this site are very strange indeed, I could jump in here and start dissing the MiniMig but where's the point in that just cos it's not my personal choice, so why do you diss  the Natami...

Dunno what age half of you are but you obviously weren't around when the Amiga was at it's peak and folk held user groups where you met up with real Amiga users, we didn't diss each other because one person liked one bit of Amiga hardware and the others didn't...

Seem's to me like there's a hell of a lot of Windoze and PC users here who'd be better buggering off back to their PC's and let real Amiga enthusiasts enjoy themselves in peace...

[Franko]

Well back then we had plenty of Atari ST owners to dis.

We only had one in these parts and he spent most of his time at our group meetings, but we never dissed him, reckon we just felt sorry for the poor little chap...

[Franko]

My brother in law in the states was one of those who constantly nipped my head about how you can't live life today without the internet and it was time to give up my Amiga's. Well I've tried the first part (ie:the net) and it's nothing more than I had always imagined it to be. You don't need to be on the net to enjoy using a computer...

As for the second part of his advice, no chance. I even told him about this site (he's not an Amiga user) and he's looked in on here on a number of occasions, the one thing I can't argue with him about is when he commented that from what he read here was "you all seem to spend more time arguing with each other that mines is better than yours" and  "if that's what you Amiga users are like then I'll stick to my PCs anyday".

If that's how someone on the outside views us what chance do we have...

[Franko]

As I am one of those who find the prospect of the Natami very interesting, and as you no doubt know I'm kinda new to the net, can anyone one tell me how long the Natami project has been running for (ie: when it was first announced) and in comparison how long the MiniMig (not the new AGA Version) was running for before it actually became available...

[Franko]

Hmm... I don't see the point in all this speculation of what the Natami is going to be or which hardware architecture should be used. Whomever it is doing the development of this board has already decided that and is hopefully still working on it as we speak...

Reckon it's best just to wait and see what appears at then of the day and then either embrace it or criticise it...

[Franko]

Christ My classic has got more ram than that with 128mb and yes that has not been enough when wanting to run some games etc.

Wow... what game on a classic need's 128Mb, I'd love to see that one...

[Franko]

Some versions of quake needish 128mb ram.  There are other games but memory not brillaint.

Guess I'd forgot about that one and never really notice much about the need for memory with my 256Mb...

@ Hattig

Ahh.. The Settlers on of my all time favorites, Foundation was a total let down though...

[Franko]

@ AJCopland

That's the best bit of news I've heard in a long time...

Good luck and keep up the excellent work...

Don't care what it cost's I want's one...

[Franko]

Hi,

I am really excited about the Natami, (yawn). How about upgrading the processor to something a small bit newer like a AMD 6 core cpu (1090t, 1055t or the 1075t) , why are we futzin around with something Motorolla gave up on a long time ago. I know why Amiga people aren't happy unless it is out of date junk that they can spend lots of money on upgrading for bragging rights.

Even apple had more common sense than to stick with a dead cpu.

Will someone please explain to me why?

I seem to be a little nieve in this area.

smerf

Hi smerf...

I love all my old out of date junk and when somebody makes some new out of date junk, I look forward to adding that to my ever growing out of date junke pile collection...

Franko

(PS:I don't like to brag about it though...

[Franko]

The NatAmi is obviously for people that want a physical machine that is hardware compatible with their old kit, whilst simultaneously being a bit faster and more capable. I see no problem with that.

Thems the words I've been looking for, sums it all up perfectly for me...

(wish I'd thought of them first... )

[Franko]

No one wants to buy a computer today that can't get online out of the box...the Natami team included.

I disagree with that view...

To me the main reason for the Natami is quite simple, I'd like to be able to buy a new Amiga that can run all my old software, hopefully a bit faster on things like PageStream & ImageFX, without having to scour ebay and pay ridiculous prices for an 060 board.

The ability to access the net would be nice but not a necessity...

[Franko]

In that case, the ReplayArcade board may suit your needs. (aka fpgaarcade).
The initial MX run will come with '060 cards so that will still be pricey.

I just wish the developers would hurry up a wee bit and release the thing, price doesn't matter...

@ psxphill

If thats all you want then uae on aros on a PC is probably good enough.

Not a fan of either PCs or uae, so thats a big no no for me I'm afraid...