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- From: fasten@zeus.informatik.uni-bonn.de (Bernhard Fastenrath)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: Future Amigas
- Date: 9 Apr 1996 02:12:36 GMT
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- Pacarana (larrymb@gramercy.ios.com) wrote:
- <...>
- : If it turns out that you aren't and plan to just tell PPC "Amiga" buyers
- : to go out and buy any old PCI compatible card, that just won't cut it.
- : Hopefully this is not what is planned, but if so, then why should I buy a
- : computer from AT if it ends up having identical hardware to any old PPC clone
- : and runs on the same mess of 10 million different types of PC clone gfx cards?
- : Will PPC soon beat out the Intel CPUs for mainstream and will AT's PPC be
- : cheaper than other brands in the US? Are the plans even finalized yet?
- : After the huge dealys caused by CBM and then the auction, AT should have
- : had everything thought out by the day of the auction. By now it is too
- : late to start a new chipset if the PPC Amiga is to be released in early
- : 97. Even a deal with some other manufacturer to have one of their chipsets
- : somewhat Amigatized probably couldn't fit into the announced PPC timescale
- : anymore, but if this had been started right away it could have come close.
- And what if they started some time ago? At least they have announced that
- they're working with a graphic chipset vendor and plan to create a new custom
- chipset some time ago. Or am I just imagining that? :-)
-
- : Maybe AT doesn't have the resources, creativity and know- how to make the
- : next revolutionary computer or to even join forces with someone else to
- : attempt it jointly, but so what. What does that leave us with? Perhaps a
- : legitimate excuse, but it won't make the PPC Amiga a real Amiga. If Porsche
- : failed and then somehow Yugo bought the name and started selling some little
- : 4-cylinder tin can as the Porsche 911 would that really be a Porsche 911?
- : No it wouldn't. Yes, what they made was the best that they could, but that
- That's silly. A PPC Amiga compared to today's Amigas will be the Porsche.
-
- : does little for the Porsche lover.
- : Also, the OS has been updated over the years. 3.0 was fine, and yet
- : everyone jumped ship.
- : If you make the OS the sole selling point, even as good as it,
- There is nothing but the OS and the price. If your throw enough $ at an
- Intel Box it can become a nice machine which can do all the tricks you
- want.
-
- : I'd have to say that you'll need a LOT of luck. The big productivty software
- : companies don't even notice the AmigaOS market it is so small and game makers
- : won't have any insentive to make games for the Amiga. In the past, even
- : when the market was falling, many still wrote Amiga games simply because the
- : hardware fascinated them. If go to the same hardware, coupled with a less
- : than Intel standard CPU and an unknown OS what will be the attraction?
- : If they stay away from the Amiga PPC they can program the same gfx chips
- : only coupled with a system that has a huge market.
- The Amiga market can't suddenly become as large as the Apple or even the Intel
- market but it can grow slowly. You can't expect more.
-
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