NEW Amiga announced - the Amiga X1000

[Nick1881]

I loved my A1200.

I had a 1Gb HDD, overkill much?

 

[MadMatty]

I loved my A1200.

I had a 1Gb HDD, overkill much?

My A600 had a 1gb drive. quite easy to fill too

My A1200 currently has an 8GB drive and 4 of that is taken with all the WHDLoad games and dev tools. The rest is space for apps, PPC software/games cd imaging tools and such. Oh and dual boots OS3.9 and OS4

 

[weird_dave]

I started with an A500, then someone gave me an A600, so I bought a 500MB 3.5" drive for it and managed to squeeze it in. Then I upgraded to an A1200 with 4MB extra mem and coprocessor and shoved the drive in that Boot times? What are they then? Stripped down s:startup-sequence ***!
Then I got a PC and backed up the HD to CD using linux.
I miss being able to run apps without the OS poking its nose in, but I guess the Amiga back in those days didn't really multitask as much stuff as todays machines.

 

[weird_dave]

Why's my F T W blocked out?

 

[Deleted member 66701]

I loved my A1200.

I had a 1Gb HDD, overkill much?

Not really - my A1200 has a 320gb drive and my A1 has two 1tb drives.

but I guess the Amiga back in those days didn't really multitask as much stuff as todays machines.

You are kidding right? AmigaOS was one of the earliest pre-emptive multi-tasking systems.

Some of the earliest operating systems available to home users featuring preemptive multitasking were Sinclair QDOS (1984[2]) and Amiga OS (1985), the latter based on the TRIPOS system. These both ran on Motorola 68000-family microprocessors without memory management. Though there were other Unix-like systems such as Xenix and Coherent, they could often be prohibitively expensive for home use. Amiga OS used dynamic loading of relocatable code blocks ("hunks" in Amiga jargon) to preemptively multitask all processes in the same flat address space.

 

[weird_dave]

Yes, the Amiga did multitask and was one of the early ones to do so, but it wasn't doing as many tasks as todays computers do during normal operation, it couldn't, the processing capability just wasn't there.

 

[moleh]

There was no more fun than to get 4 mates round and all play frying friends (mega bomber man) It was the nuts. Needed extra joystick ports for it tho

 

[FoxEye]

Appart from enthusiasts who's gonna buy it? Lets face it if you can't install Modern Warfare etc. then it won't sell in any meaningful quantity.

Btw i loved the Amiga and still have a A1200 & A600

As someone who never owned an Amiga, I can't see the point in it either.

Is there a need for it? What does it do that a PC wouldn't?

 

[Deleted member 66701]

Yes, the Amiga did multitask and was one of the early ones to do so, but it wasn't doing as many tasks as todays computers do during normal operation, it couldn't, the processing capability just wasn't there.

I used to do rendering in lightwave, be on BBS, listen to music and play Sim City all at the same time - you don't do much more on a "modern" PC now.

Is there a need for it? What does it do that a PC wouldn't?

Of course there is a need for it. What you're saying is why would someone want to buy a Westfield when a Focus would get you to work just as easily and in a more accomplished manner.

That may be true, but I can guarantee you'll have much more fun on the journey in the Westfield and for it's chosen specialisation - lightweight and outright handling - it will blow the Fiesta away in performance.

Same with the new Amiga (and old ones as well) - they are specialised machines - they may not have the brute power of a PC but they are very lean an efficient - it doesn't try to cover all bases but for those bases it can cover, the performance is stunning.

This new Amiga wont replace my PC but it will live very happily along side it and will be used for fun programming projects, hardware hacking, file serving (the power usuage will be very low) and playing all the old classic games and apps.

 

[RumbleBee]

Amazing that the Amiga name is still alive with a thriving community after all these years and now a new Amiga is on the horizon. This news has re sparked my interest in those classic games. I keep meaning to buy the Amiga Forver software every payday for the last year or so, but never get around to it.

Looking at some of those Amiga sites I do wonder what exactly do people use Amiga's for. Is it programming? I'll look into it more tomorrow. Just seems there are an awful lot of Amiga users out there that are not playing games. Aside from games I can't remember doing anything else. Well games and deluxe paint

 

[megatron]

Westfield sportscars only sell 400 cars a year and they are leading the industry - because they are doing what the other car manufacturers aren't - they don't produce clone cars - they have their own design philosophies and direction and produce something different and exciting.

They copy the Caterham Super 7 designed by Colin Chapman, I highly doubt they are beating Caterham in the market they created.

 

[weird_dave]

I used to do rendering in lightwave, be on BBS, listen to music and play Sim City all at the same time - you don't do much more on a "modern" PC now.

Most people didn't have an Amiga capable of that.
As much as I loved the Amiga, once the Pentium 2 came out I just had to go to the dark side, my A1200 hasn't been used since.

 

[Deleted member 66701]

They copy the Caterham Super 7 designed by Colin Chapman, I highly doubt they are beating Caterham in the market they created.

Westfield sell more kits per year than Caterham. Caterham sell about 50% more "factory built" cars.

So, my statement stands - Westfield lead the UK kit car market, both in terms of value of kits sold and kits sold in numbers - Westfield now also own the GTM brand and are expected to post a larger revenue/profit this year than Caterham.

The current Westfield and Caterham designs diverged sometime ago when Westfield introduced proprietary body work and independant rear suspension so they are no longer a "copy".

Just seems there are an awful lot of Amiga users out there that are not playing games.

You're quite right - many still using an Amiga do not play many games on them. Other uses? DTP, image editing, animation, PVR, 3D ray tracing, video special effects, presentations (google Hollywood Amiga), music composition etc. Just because you didn't do these things on YOUR Amiga didn't mean it wasn't capable of doing it.

I'm sure you don't run a factory of car assembly robots from your PC either.

 

[Hades]

I started with an Amiga 500 and progressed to a 1200 later. If I recall I had a GVP accelerator with 12mb RAM and an FPU (?)

I loved Lightwave and the word Screamernet still brings a smile to my face.

As for games, it was the first machine that I played 'network' games on. My mate used to bring his around and we'd connect them up with datalink cable for two player Populous II

 

[iv-tecman]

AmigaFan – I’ve just read this thread, and I admire your dedication to a platform many have long since deemed as dead or no longer worthwhile using..

I too was an avid Amiga Fan back in the day. I had my far share of Amiga’s. I had one of the surprise A500+ packages, when commodore ran out of stock A500 and so slipped the new A500+ with Kickstart 2.0 and improved Workbench out to an unsuspecting public back in 1991.

I also had one of the first A1200HD machines, it had a whopping 80GB 2.5” drive before I ripped it out and placed a rather healthy 160GB drive that cost me the earth back then…

I also supported Commodore’s decision to move into console gaming. I pay for a CD32, and even though it wasn’t up to the standards graphically or as supported as the upcoming Sony Playstation, I still had one.

My A500+ was sold for the A1200. My A1200 was put into a custom PC tower case, and had a really nice Phase 5 Blizzard 2460 (not the 40) 8MB expansion card, with a 2 x CD rom and a 500GB HDD. I was also lucky in being able to find a suitable smaller 9 pin DIN A4000 keyboard, and this system was awesome until sadly I got a job supporting MS products, so I ended up getting a 485 DX266 which I loathed at first…. Windows 3.1 sucked, but the games for the 486 made up for it in some ways.

My A1200 died many years ago, the board developed a fault and I just never got around to fixing it, instead I moved over to WinUAE to keep my interest in the platform…

This news has really excited me, so you’re not alone in hopes that one day Amiga computers will be easily available again. However, as said, some will not see the point..

I also would like to understand how this will be marketed, the website, even though I do get it, could be seen as a joke. And has been… !! Who’ll distribute the machine, who’ll write for it, support it? It has potential. Hopefully, news will travel well, and all those who would like to use an Amiga again, and a bit updated with features such as USB, Blu Ray and 3D graphics, and a kick ass OS can now do so..

Thanks for posting..

 

[PhoenixUK]

Would be interesting to see if they can come up with anything good.
At the end of the day, every little bit of competition is good for us.


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PS. Looking forward to overclocking it ! )

 

[KingZeddy]

My Amiga was the best computer I ever had (with rose tinted glasses on), the A500 and the 1200 with a 4mb expansion card.............Mega-lo-mania was a superb game as was speedball 2 and the never surpassed sensible soccer

 

[PhoenixUK]

My Amiga was the best computer I ever had (with rose tinted glasses on), the A500 and the 1200 with a 4mb expansion card.............Mega-lo-mania was a superb game as was speedball 2 and the never surpassed sensible soccer

Sensible soccer !
I still remember playing that with my mates on dual jsticks !!

 

[arc@css]

Just saying AMIGA out loud gives me RetroWood.

 

[valve90210]

Sensible soccer !
I still remember playing that with my mates on dual jsticks !!

Not only do I still remember playing it....I still play it, on my psp, still the best footy game ever (talking SWOS here - but had pretty much every version....and still have them in cupboard under the stairs at my parents house.)