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Offline The_Editor

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Re: What should I get??
« Reply #14 on: December 06, 2004, 06:06:08 PM »
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Re: What should I get??
« Reply #15 on: December 06, 2004, 06:29:28 PM »
Ask for an Amiga 1 uA1XC ITX setup.  Car hook-up kit and "A Monaro !". . .  :-D
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Re: What should I get??
« Reply #16 on: December 06, 2004, 07:45:36 PM »
@ The_Editor

They're fast I agree - but they look a little crap though don't you think?
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Re: What should I get??
« Reply #17 on: December 06, 2004, 07:52:04 PM »
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Whilst I concur with what the other posters have said (with regards to getting a PC), I really don't know what the hype is with WinUAE. I'd take a real Amiga over WinUAE anyday, but it all depends on your needs.
it's not that WinUAE is "better" than a real amiga, it's that if you put it on a laptop, you now have a PORTABLE Amiga. And THAT is very good!

personally, if I had the money now, i'd get a micro.
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Re: What should I get??
« Reply #18 on: December 06, 2004, 08:22:17 PM »
Josh, if you would have seen my Pegasos before I sent it off, you would have liked it.  But now that they are having problems I wouldnt recommend a Peg or a A1.  Wait for a few months to see what goes on.  Get a fast PC then you can do alot.. Linux, Windows, WinUAE, -> AROS <-... they have a good downloadable AROS on the net..check it out..or stop by my place if you have time and you can get the copy I burned off the net.
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Re: What should I get??
« Reply #19 on: December 06, 2004, 09:26:38 PM »
Oh I dunno ...



Looks pretty damn fine to me...

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Re: What should I get??
« Reply #20 on: December 06, 2004, 09:59:23 PM »
Facing the same situation myself...   I may not be able to afford a A1 unless I sold just about every computer thing I own...  Right now I have enough to sell that I could get an Amiga 4000/040 or better and then try and get a Cyberstorm PPC for 400-500 later when OS4 comes out.  It seems like the most realistic for me, but I'm not sure if a 200-266MHZ PPC will run OS4 ok or not.  And Amiga Forever will do as good as the 040 if not better.  So I'm really still unsure myself...
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Re: What should I get??
« Reply #21 on: December 06, 2004, 10:04:44 PM »
I think there was a Betatester on here who said that his Blizzard PPC 603e 160mhz with BVision ran OS4 quickly, he also said that it emulated at least as fast as the 25mhz 68040 he also had on board, I can't remember who said it though.

I hope a CSPPC 233mhz will run OS4 anyways  :-)

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Re: What should I get??
« Reply #22 on: December 06, 2004, 10:28:10 PM »
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Christmas is so close now!

I'm looking for suggestions on what I should ask my family for.

A1200 setup?, A4000? A PC that can (really) run the OS 3.1 WinUAE setup I have. What do you all suggest I ask for? :-?


If you're the same kind of amiga freak as me, you'll go for A1+OS4.
I also have a pegasos but in light of recent developments there, I'd hold off to see what happens.
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Re: What should I get??
« Reply #23 on: December 06, 2004, 10:45:24 PM »
@cecilia

You make a valid point, but it still doesn't feel right, I just don't like the feel of WinUAE.
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Re: What should I get??
« Reply #24 on: December 06, 2004, 10:48:48 PM »
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They're fast I agree - but they look a little crap though don't you think?


Your treading on very thin ice there, them there is fightin' words to a Holden nut, me personally I like Fords, so i'll take one of these for Christmas :-D
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Re: What should I get??
« Reply #25 on: December 06, 2004, 11:10:11 PM »
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PC isn't more poweful because you won't have OS4, and if OS4 takes off (like you all want it to) then you will be kicking yourself when youre skint and cant buy a machine that runs it.


The cynic in me thinks that by the time OS4 is fully released, then someone will have merged the PPC-JIT code from QEMU or PearPC into UAE and itix could compile his OS4EMU as a 3.9 application to make use of the emulated PPC.

An Athlon64 4000+ with PPC-JIT would p!ss over any current A1 available.

I've just compiled E-UAE to 64bit native code on a 64bit kernel on my Athlon64-3200+  I'll let you know in a while how much faster it is than 32bit compiled.

You never know, I might have go at merging one of the PPC-JIT compilers into the E-UAE source.  Depends how hard it is, I'm not the best coder in the world.
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Re: What should I get??
« Reply #26 on: December 07, 2004, 04:55:53 AM »
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The cynic in me thinks that by the time OS4 is fully released, then someone will have merged the PPC-JIT code from QEMU or PearPC into UAE and itix could compile his OS4EMU as a 3.9 application to make use of the emulated PPC.

An Athlon64 4000+ with PPC-JIT would p!ss over any current A1 available.

See, now doesn't native code look all that much sillier?  That's why I liked the idea of DE so much.  Since I started working with Perl, PHP, and Java, I really don't want to go back to native code.

Anyway, these days you're either Mac, Amiga, or PC, since everything else works on PC hardware.  If you want to use classic Amiga software, either a 1200 or a WinUAE PC will do great.  If you want something more substansial, like any of the various PPC accelerated Amiga programs, you'd be better off with a Windows box where Internet Explorer has been immediately replaced with Firefox.  Plenty of Linux software is available for Windows that replaces many of Microsoft's braindead tools, and XP is a lot more stable than people give it credit (with IE disabled, that is).

Also keep in mind the limitations of Amiga web browsers.  The world is using a lot more CSS, DOM, and [advanced] Javascript now that Mozilla is getting a major following.
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Re: What should I get??
« Reply #27 on: December 07, 2004, 05:14:48 AM »
Wasn"t someone trying to port Mozilla to the Amiga? :-?

Maybe they could call the Amiga version Phoenix (after the dead bird that arises again from its' ashes) :banana:
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Re: What should I get??
« Reply #28 from previous page: December 07, 2004, 07:01:18 AM »
If I asked my family for 'another' Amiga, they'd have me committed...

Firstly, they'd have no idea where to get an Amiga, other than eBay,(and getting your stuff from there is a sizeable risk these days...)

Second, I have too many already!!!
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