« Reply #1216 on: December 14, 2011, 02:01:12 AM »
We're totally on the same page here Darrin
It's strange, but the "Next Gen" PowerPC Amigas and OS4.x for some reason just never excited me in the same way the FPGA Replay has. I think it's because I have always been a "Classic Amiga" fan, and I have never really had much interest or saw much benefit in buying a big, bulky, expensive AmigaNG system just to be able to run a small number of extra apps. I'd rather see evolution and improvement of the classic, and at a low price. Replay is much more in the spirit of what I've been looked and waiting for.
It will replace my expired A4000 very nicely, it's modern, it's compact, it's powerful, it's expandable, and it's NOT emulation but "the real thing."
haywirepc, if expandability is important to you, there's no contest between the two; you have to get a Replay. The MiniMig just isn't designed for expansion. But if the ability to expand isn't important to you, and A500/ECS is enough, then Minimig is perfect, as Darrin said 
You're exactly right. The FPGA Machines "feel" like real Amigas. The main reason I still use my A2000 and A4000 is simply because of Internet, USB and... RTG! Once my FPGA allows RTG screenmodes and I have access to USB (and the Internet via a USB ethernet dongle) then I doubt that my trusty A4000 will get much use.
I also love it if I screw up my hard drive installation on my Minimig or FPGA Aracde because it just means copying a backup from my laptop onto the SD Card, as opposed to curing and swearing for several hours as I try and restore the Hard Drive on my "real" Amiga.


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