Amiga 5000 ?

[Jope]

Nick wrote:
I`ve seen the Death Vigil DVD and as the guy walked around the old C= HQ he went into the research place and there was an A5000.

I want my own copy of that DVD!

Eh? There was no such thing. The rarities shown were the A3500 and the NYX prototype. No A5000s.

[Palpatine]

Eh? There was no such thing. The rarities shown were the A3500 and the NYX prototype. No A5000s.

The A5000 was definitely a DCE product. The board had an AGA chipset, a 68030 and was supposed to get some sort of local bus connection to a device called the BrainStormer... This was a design for a PPC / PCI add-on card made by Escena. This later evolved into.. well you know what :-)

One of the  A5000 prototypes should be on show at the Benelux Amiga Show / Benelux Pegasos Show in October ;-)

Cheers,
Ron

[olegil]

Coldfire 800MHz would rock, as would PCI/AGP/SDR (or DDR) etc.

But AAA or whatever just ain't feasible. Does anyone here honestly think anyone can go up against nVidia, Ati and Matrox, in their price range? I mean, they're practically giving away Radeon 7500s, do you have ANY idea how much faster than AGA that card is? It eats anything you can come up with for breakfast.


So basically, this would be stamped as "another PC clone" by everyone (especially Shawn, who still hasn't grasped the concept of "Zorro bus").

Come on, Zorro is 16 bit with 24bit addresses. The 32 bit extension is done the old fashioned way with double-pumped clock, which surely adds as much latency as PCI any day of the week.

Forget Zorro and AA(A(+)), and let's just follow the industry standards. The trick is to adopt the right standards at an early time. The day is past when the Amiga could create its own standards and be a success...

[pjhutch]

The 680x0 range is a dead end, its too slow for modern applications and no-one would touch it. PPC is the way fwd.

It would be fine for 'new' Amigas 5-10 yrs old but times have moved on and it would be uneconomical to produce such machines like the Boxer and A5000 now.

The AmigaOne is the way to go, support it and buy one otherwise live in the past.

[bloodline]

Corrie wrote:
I really believe that a 68060 @ 100Mhz with a decent gfx card, soundcard, 128Mb RAM, Ultrascsi controller would have been a good platform to run most applications, for god sake my A4000T 060 66Mhz, 128Mb, Ultrascsi runs excellently!!!! I simply do not see the real requirement for 1000Mhz+

After all, our Amiga is well known for iniative... ;-)

Maybe you don't do much music production? Nothing short of a 1Ghz Athlon is particilarly useful.

[Nick]

@Jope

Well OK then. I didn`t say there was, but I was wondering.

[DanDude]

I would still buy a PPC system with all of today's peripherals. 060 greater than 50MHz is still an option in my book.  Screw Microsoft, screw Mac, MorphOS.