Which os for NatAmi?

[Franko]

I think the whole point of the NatAmi is to have as close as you can get a modern piece of hardware that runs in 68K but does things a wee bit faster than even an Amiga with a fast 060 board can...

So OS4.x if out of the  question as that is PPC based (thank gawd...

Piru has made it clear it won't be MorphOS (thank gawd..

AROS not really sure about it (thank gawd...

Workbench 3.x... Seems to me that's what the NatAmi is going to actually be made for... (THANK GAWD & THE NATAMI DEVELOPERS

(Pancakes... well you never know, as long as they're 3.x...

[Franko]

I think they'll be lucky if they sell "a hundred or two". Natami will be very expensive for what it actually is... a retro hobby system. I doubt you'll see people lining up to buy one.

Says he... who thinks CUSA are going to take on Apple and thinks CUSAs PCs aren't expensive... :rolleyes:

(are the queues forming round the block outside CUSAs "Apple Style Computer Boutiques" yet... :roflmao:)

[Franko]

@ DCAmiga

Just goes to show the difference between the NatAmi Team & CUSA... (Not that there's any comparison really...

The NatAmi team has the decency and maturity not to just delete a comment that is not in their favour and responded to it in the appropriate fashion, heck they could have just deleted it and closed the discussion in true CUSA fashion and pretended nothing actually happened...

CUSA is a sad joke of a company, but I will say this for them, they do make me laugh...

[Franko]

It will be very expensive(for what it is)...

Atari Coldfire is 599 euros(no VAT), and it uses a much cheaper CPU(Coldfire vs 68060) and a smaller FPGA. I'll be suprised if Natami undercuts SAM460 in price and not very surprised if it is more expensive.
That's just too much for a retro hobby thingy...

Maybe a "retro hobby thingy" to you mate, but it's a hell of a lot more than that to me...

And pray tell, what's the rough prices for CUSAs upcoming PCs

Oooppps, forgot you can't read this cos of the ignore thingy... :roflmao:

In that case I'll take this opportunity to say... SHUT UP... PLEASE... :biglaugh:

[Franko]

The Natami  page lists(under specification)...

http://www.natami.net/specification.htm




If that is true, than say hello to SAM460 prices.

Hmmm... he's got a fascination with NatAmi, maybe he's a closet NatAmi fan and only using the CUSA FanBoy thing as a cover...

[Franko]

Even without the 68060, it's still going to be expensive...

C-one and Minimig are what... 300-400 euros? Something many times as poweful, with a much bigger FPGA, more memory and 68060(on the first models)... I'll be suprised if it isn't 1000 euros or more(with 060)... Later they will get cheaper, but how much, it remains to be seen.

Hmm... at 300 to 400 euros for a Minimig (which is waaaay out as Tone007 has shown) and all your other guesstimates at the prices of the NatAmi, I sure hope for your sake you don't dabble in stocks & shares...

What's your guesstimate for a CUSA machine, two bob and a packet of stale peanuts would be mine...

Dang... keep forgetting you don't read my posts... oh well...

[Franko]

This. Even 400 EUR (and that's a high estimate, judging by the Minimig  cost) would be a bargain compared to what it would cost to get a classic  Amiga up to anywhere near the estimated performance, and well within a  lot of our budgets for retrocomputing hardware.

But I suppose Wolftothemoon can't accept the idea of paying that kind of money for anything that doesn't have an Amiga sticker and slightly-customized case on it...

+1

(although to be honest if the NatAmi can do all it claims then considering an 060 board goes for well over £300 these days on ebay I'd happily pay a grand for a brand new bit of kit with those specs...