How would you have designed AGA Amigas?

[bbond007]

Why does it have a temperature dial from a radiator on it?

Thats where you put in the ethernet fluid...

Actually, I think that is a 50 ohm terminator. You remove that, and your whole network goes  down.

[Hell Labs]

That explains so much. Reminds me of changing the automatic transmission fluid in a chrysler, shifting demons ran off down the street and stole a cornetto from the shop across the way.

[ChaosLord]

Thats where you put in the ethernet fluid...

One time I accidentally spilled Ethernet fluid into my keyboard.  Then all my keystrokes started to randomly appear on the screens of other nearby computers. Freaky.
:laughing:

[Matt_H]

If you were clever enough to spot the trends how would you have designed the AGA Amigas? Turning too little, too late into just enough and just in time.

Simple: I would have released the A3000+ as engineering intended. Late 1991 launch would have given VGA a run for its money, and the onboard DSP would have done wonders in the professional market.

I think there were some deisgn notes to use battmen.resource to auto-force the system to NTSC/PAL as selected in the Early Boot Menu, so if that had come to fruition (and DblNTSC/DblPAL/VGAOnly were selectable options) the scandoubler issues we face now would have been pre-empted.

With that machine on the high end, a 1200 with DSP, hard drive, clock, FPU and some Fast RAM as standard would have been nice. Price would be kept low with subsidies from the phenomenal sales of the 3000+ (since we're dreaming anyway

[AmigaNG]

I would only change some minor things,

No1 have a 1.78mb High Dens Disk supported and standard in the A1200 & A4000
No2 have a FPU chip at least 68882 - 20Mhz on all AGA range
No3 have a A4000CD edition launch mid 1993
No4 have Team17 or another developer make a game to show off the AGA, FPU and general power of the Amiga.

No5 port Doom to the Amiga, even if it only could run on the A4000 I think we needed it back then to prove the Amiga could do a game like it as many on the PC didn't believe it could be done, I know Alien Breed and Gloom kind of proved them wrong, but the Name alone would of added a lot to the Amiga image.