1001 Webs wrote:
> The Amiga had Playstations in the market as far back as 1991, with the
> Amiga CDTV, one of the first computers to come with a CD-ROM drive as
> standard. The CDTV was designed and marketed as a set-top box to go
> along with one's VCR and be used as a CD-player and games console.
> I've seen versions of many of the video games being played today on
> the latest gadgetry that are unequivocally Amigan.
Which was a total flop as it was far too expensive and offered nothing
new beyond the A500 it was based on. CBM badly misjudged the market
place and instead should have focused on the next chipset and providing
the A570 with lots of software sup****t by working with game developers.
> The Amiga is still alive, even though no one is investing on it,
> mainly because legal impediments related to copyright issues:
> It has been in that state for a loooong number of years.
Yes - it is in a mess.
> If the Amiga were to sue all companies that are illegally reusing
> their code (among which Microsoft is one of the worst offenders) they
> would make billions.
Utter nonsense.
Workbench code in Windows? Not a good advert is it? ;)
> But in spite of all that, it keeps going and has a pretty decent and
> recently upgraded OS that has very little to envy from the likes of
> Vista or Mac OSX.
Except it has no modern software.
> And guess what, Microsoft is using AmigaAnywhere 2 currently to run
> under Windows proper, Windows Mobile, Linux for PCs and Linux for
> embedded systems. A Mac OS X version is on its way, as well as a
> Symbian version.
> http://magikomputer.blogspot.com/2008/01/amigaanywhere-at-ces-2008.html
Which is nothing whatsoever to do with the original Amiga. It's just a
scratch built VM-type piece of software that simply reuses the brand name.
> My A1200 took about 4 seconds from the moment you turned on until you
> had a fully working desktop.
> With just 4Mb of RAM. Now, that's smart.
> Those 4 Mb allow you to do all common computing tasks and other no so
> common, such as playing (and creating) music, watching (and creating)
> movies or making full-blown multimedia presentations.
Without doubt the Amiga was a superior design compared to machines of
the time and it would be amazing to see what a modern Amiga would have
looked like had CBM not continually shot themselves in the foot.
But
The Amiga is dead.
However if anyone is into a bit of nostalgia then the Minimig from ACube
is new Amiga hardware you can buy right now and looks mighty fine.
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Sam
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