A new handheld Amiga-game device? That would be nice!

[AmiDelf]

Yes! Think of it! A complete new Amiga computer. Handheld, like N-Gadge or GameBoy with full backward compatibility and AGA support. That would be so cool. 060 speed that is.

Playing Breathless, Super Stardust, Cannon Fodder, Menace, Lotus Triology, Alien Breed:Tower Assult and more on one single device, running something like different kickstarts in a flashrom or something. That would be a really nice game console, dont you think?

Regards,
Michal, www.amigaworld.org

[chipper701]

I actually spoke to Bill at Amiga about this prospect and actually liked the idea.

[bloodline]

I actually spoke to Bill at Amiga about this prospect and actually liked the idea.

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahah  :roflmao:  :roflmao:  :roflmao:  :roflmao:  :roflmao:  :roflmao:  :roflmao:  :roflmao:  :roflmao:  :roflmao:  :roflmao:  :roflmao:  :roflmao:  :roflmao:

That's brightened my miserable Monday.

-Edit- Sorry I should say, your idea is a good one, but you kinda spoke to the wrong person.

[CU_AMiGA]

I like the idea man. This should have been done long ago.

[xeron]

The thing is, while this is technically quite easy to do, for mass market appeal, it has to support software on memory cards, *and floppy disk*, so that average joe ex-amiga user can snap up a "MobileMiggy", grab his box of disks down from the loft and start playing them (IMHO).

Floppy drive technology hasn't shrunk all that much, combined with the fact that the motor will take quite a chunk of power from the batteries, makes this quite an expensive problem to solve.

[CU_AMiGA]

xeron wrote:
The thing is, while this is technically quite easy to do, for mass market appeal, it has to support software on memory cards, *and floppy disk*, so that average joe ex-amiga user can snap up a "MobileMiggy", grab his box of disks down from the loft and start playing them (IMHO).

Floppy drive technology hasn't shrunk all that much, combined with the fact that the motor will take quite a chunk of power from the batteries, makes this quite an expensive problem to solve.

AH! Good point. We may of had another Atari Lynx or PC Engine on our hands here!  :-D

[Dagon]

Maybe an UAE for the new NOKIA that looks like gameboy advanced :-) (Is it possible to boot another OS in these mobiles? AROS would be cool in these colour nokia mobiles :-) )

[AmiDelf]

Well, the handheld device could have USB 2.0 and a small memmory inside it, about 512mb or something. The handheld device could in somewhat way support a new diskformat, not ADF, but maybe AHD or something like that. You could then transfer the games you want from net. Paying for them offcourse. Copy them over to a memmory stick, wich every OS now supports. Copy it over to it,.. take the memmory stick into the Amiga handheld device and load it into the Amiga device. Maybe to complicated.. any easier ideas?

[Calen]

Yes! Think of it! A complete new Amiga computer. Handheld, like N-Gadge or GameBoy with full backward compatibility and AGA support. That would be so cool. 060 speed that is.

Agreed, it would be very cool. but in the meantime you do have the next best thing, the GBA. fantastic little handheld that is more than capable of dealing with most of the Amiga classics as we have already seen.

You have to see Pinball Deluxe Challenge, it's Pinball Deams & Fantasies in 1 game pack 99.9% faithfully ported, only the amazing opening tune has been butchered.
There has been at least 5 Amiga games ported to the GBA and more on way, the newest i've heard about and due for release before xmas is Archer Maclean's 3D Pool  Sweeet! :-)

The old Amiga games companys should milk it for all it's worth now, get the old Amiga classics out on the GBA.
it could be the last big commericaly viable 2D gaming device we will see this big as 3D will slowly take over with the more powerfull handhelds coming over the next year or 2 eg:  PSP,  GBA2 and that terrible Nokia N-Gage

Gimme SWOS :-)

[bloodline]

Dagon wrote:
Maybe an UAE for the new NOKIA that looks like gameboy advanced :-) (Is it possible to boot another OS in these mobiles? AROS would be cool in these colour nokia mobiles :-) )

Once we get AROS booting on the ARM chip we shall see :-D

[Kronos]

This will NOT cos :

The 060 may be rather "cool" but not cool enough for a PDA (and it's batteries).

Coldfires and Dragonballs aren't compatible enough to be a big help.

A 060 just hasn't enough power to compete with the next generation of Gameboys.
(No sense to compete with those of today, as those will soon be gone).

The chipset isn't low-power either,and a low-power version would end in
a complete redesign.

The schematics for AA have been long lost (AFAIK).

AA won't look any good against the latest PDA-tech, which even comes with
HW-acceled 3D.

The games aren't on the newest level.

Lot of games will only run on a limited sub-set of all Amigas.

Most games are abondoned,so getting them adapted or just a new
distribution licence would be hard.

None of the companies in this market comes even close to having the
needed $$$$$$$.

What would be possible is selling a high-power-next-gen gameboy with
pre-installed and highly optimized UAE.

Those should be atleast good enough for OCS-games.