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From: [e-mail] (Pacarana)
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Subject: Re: Is it Adios Amiga again? (AT sold out!)
Date: 16 Apr 1996 01:06:24 GMT
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>Wish the situation were different. It isn't. It's not going to be.
   I just wish it had at least progressed to AAA/Hombre level, then custom
chip programmers could have at least been left with something good enough to
fiddle around for some years to come. It's a shame that a true next-gen Amiga
never managed to get released (AGA was still basically only a slightly souped-
up OCS). Some cool hardware is going into game consoles but that doesn't ddo
much good. Useless for anything but games, and not as good for all types of
games as a full-fledged computer chipset would have been, not too mention
$10,000 development kits which make casual or on and off commercial
programming out of the question. The Clone cards still aren't really cool yet,
plus eachone has totally diferent set of features.
  Of course, no one has said that VISICorp is killing off the Amiga. So
perhaps such stuff will still arrive and with a company with a U.S. presence
as well. Yet another delay makes Amiga style next-gen chipsets more and
more unlikely though. Perhaps a souped up Hombre could be gotten going or a
deal with the M2 team to add in a few Amiga patented features along with some
modes that the console didn't have/need (8bit register/super hi-res).