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| Posted on 19-Feb-2002 15:22 GMT by Teemu I. Yliselä | 63 comments
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The log from yesterday's IRC chat with Hyperion has been posted on the AUG99 homepage here.
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| Hyperion chat log available : Comment 20 of 63 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by priest on 20-Feb-2002 06:37 GMT | In reply to Comment 18 (Nian):
Ok, then I'm a fool and a proud one. ;)
If one likes Amiga and is ready to but the money where one's mouth is, PPC is the way to go, 68k is a dead end. Amigas and Macs will remain more expensive than x86 boxes, better accept that and learn to live with it.
I choose G4 machine anyday over my sucking AMD box. I've wasted too much money for x86 HW already, time to have something high quality (or at least fun) to invest on...
Nian, you should have read the IRC log.
>The fact of the matter is that if an amiga user was given a choice between $1400AU for a kick ass 1.7Ghz AMD system or
>$2500 for an AmigaPPC G4 500Mhz system, when both systems have the same 68k compatibility, I hate to say it but only
>a fool would buy the AmigaPPC.
There is life beyond 68k. AmigaOS is going via the PPC route. Take it or leave it. We will know the price of those four AmigaPPC systems when they are available.
>Honestly there isn't that much must have PPC software, most of the software
>for PPC is merely a rewritten 68k app for speed. No more features just speed,
But FYI, that's just what CPU's deliver. Speed/calculation power. No features.
>so PPC atmo isn't worth it when a PC emulating the 68k runs faster than the PPC.
Not true. See http://www.barefeats.com/pentium4.html
You are lying to yourself if you think that emulated 68k can ever beat modern PPC. Also there is faster 68k JIT emulation for PPC than for x86 (not H&P emu, though).
>... Oh and the $300 for amigaos for it then I am still saving $800AU compaired to an amigappc and I get a twice as good a system to boot.
That's just YOUR opinnion, IMO: you wasted your $1700 on the Athlon. ;)
>No PPC is far too expensive isn't fast enough and can't compete with a x86 compatible.
I've prepared to pay more if I get what I want.
PPC is not fast enough? How come? Not fast enough for what? We are talking about Amiga, I remind you.
IMO: Amigas do not compete with x86 compatibles.
>Not to mention the ability to upgrade so easily
I do not want to replase the motherboard every now and then... and re-install everything again ... and try to find all the needed patches for that motherboard all over again... I rather just swap one card, like the CPU card.
>and to know that the potential amiga user base can excede the limmited production run of that shitty AmigaONE.
READ THE IRC LOG !
>Oh and if AmigaOS was for the PC then anyone in the world could buy it off the shelf,
Not true. Have you seen AmigaOSXL on the self of any PC store? I have not.
>One last thing. If Titan, Hyperion, Haage&Partner are worried about serious competition with PC software then perhaps they should develop software that is on par with today standards instead of producing out of date crap.
Sorry but you have lost your grip to reality.
>For F*** sakes some of the games released in the last 2 years would have been laughted at in 92.
What Titan/Hyperion/H&P game you are talking about?
>They suck, you suck, and good night.
Try the other way around. Perhaps there is only one that sucks.. |
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