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Offline cgutjahr

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I'd like to point out what som99 just posted in the other, now closed thread about c64man allegedly claiming the CPU to be faster than it actually is:

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showpost.php?p=775475&postcount=2

Personally, I can't imagine a 1 Ghz CPU being all that useful for emulating an Amiga. You'll also note that the promotion video on the website never shows any Amiga games or applications running. Not to mention that the Workbench setup shown in this video doesn't look like too much time was spent fine-tuning things.

The business model in general strikes me as greedy. Buy old, practically useless thin clients somewhere, slap a new OS setup on the CF card, then sell for 135 USD?  That's some nice pocket money. And abusing a community site for aggressive spamm^h marketing (12 threads or something like that have been opened about the "AmiGO", "Amiga Mini", "D-UAE" so far) isn't my cup of tea either.

To those who want to buy the OS setup seperately: He can't do that, as it contains Windows XP. I doubt selling heavily modified versions on DVD is covered by the XP license.
 

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Re: D-UAE Dedicated Amiga Emulation Station- Preorders for the Next Run
« Reply #1 on: October 23, 2014, 03:55:13 PM »
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This is not a heavily modified version of Windows XP,  its Windows XP Embedded

A Windows version that has the actual Windows branding removed and does not boot into the normal desktop certainly fits my (and most likely Microsoft's) definition of "heavily modified".

Now if you're okay with making up your own licensing terms, I won't try to convince you otherwise. I'm just saying a stand-alone distribution would be an even dumber idea, so people should stop asking for it.

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So its $110 just in hardware

I arrive at $95-$105 when adding up your numbers?

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This is an affordable way for someone who cant afford a real amiga to get the experience of having the amiga like experience.

The really affordable way is to just buy Amiga Forever and use the included KX Light - it uses Linux (a modified Knoppix, to be precise) to achieve what you are doing with Windows XP.

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As far as speedwise it runs games just fine,  these are fine tuned systems fully tested before sale.  

You did (again) not reply to som99's remark about the processor used in these thin clients. Care to comment?