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Amiga was my gaming hay day! I only had that and a Master System until I was around 13 or so. Amazing. I hope the comeback works, I'd definitely buy one. Seriously regret selling my old A500+ now. Seen a few 1200's on eBay but not quite tempted enough yet...
This will probably be just like the new Commadore hardware, just an overpriced PC with a nostalgic name slapped on it. Meh.
OH MAN, ZOOL! There's some memories. I am trying to convince my mum to post me my old Commodore Amiga. I miss it so.
I'm not familiar with anything before the PSone (i'm working on it, i need money), but i still like the idea of a new console on the market. I was hoping that it would be Sega, and i wouldn't have been surprised if Mac had been making a media centre or something. I'm glad to hear that it's a retro company though, even if it is more wishful than it is definite.
Atheistium: Right course of action! Do whatever you have to to get that little guy back. The Amiga's a goddamn treasure that not enough people appreciate.
I might be getting a bit prematurely excited about something that might never happen, but this could be great. Given the climate for casual and family gaming now, if they marketed a new Amiga as a fun, budget gaming and media machine, and the community seriously got behind it in terms of bedroom developing, it could build a really cool little scene. Kind of to the PC what the Wii is to the 360. We might still be a long way off that, but it's a nice idea.
And besides, I want to be a ninja from the Nth dimension again and jump around a sugary planet filled with Chupa Chups. Is there anything finer?
I might be getting a bit prematurely excited about something that might never happen, but this could be great. Given the climate for casual and family gaming now, if they marketed a new Amiga as a fun, budget gaming and media machine, and the community seriously got behind it in terms of bedroom developing, it could build a really cool little scene. Kind of to the PC what the Wii is to the 360. We might still be a long way off that, but it's a nice idea.
And besides, I want to be a ninja from the Nth dimension again and jump around a sugary planet filled with Chupa Chups. Is there anything finer?
Man, I still remember the Shadow of the beast trilogy,all those Psygnosis games,Lure of the temptress,Monkey Island,Captain Blood,Starglider2,Damocles,Turrican1 and 2,and the list goes on...
I still have my A500 with the Fatter Agnus and Action Replay 3.Let's see what happens...
I still have my A500 with the Fatter Agnus and Action Replay 3.Let's see what happens...
Here's the problem:
What made the Amiga special for games was the custom chips. For applications, it was the enormously advanced OS.
New Amiga hardware today is basicly a PowerPC chip and bog-standard GPU hardware with crappy drivers that don't utilize even a fraction of the power available. I find it facinating that custom hardware was what made the Amiga famous, and for the last 15 years Amiga fans have been arguing about what brand of CPU is to be used (remember, folks, x86 is evil). Once you've got your non-Intel CPU in place, the rest of the architecture is pretty much irrelevant. Wow.
As for the "new" OS 4.0, its internal design is still way too old and doesn't have any tools required for decent application development, let alone games.
Of course, it's worth pointing out that Amiga Inc. didn't even refactor AmigaOS to version 4.0. They wasted all their time working on a Java clone that nobody wants, and they outsourced the OS and hardware to other companies.
Is there ANY company out there besides Microsoft and Apple that knows how to make a new platform? There were dozens of computers in the 80's, and now practically everything is dead except 5,000 distros of the same Linux base.
What made the Amiga special for games was the custom chips. For applications, it was the enormously advanced OS.
New Amiga hardware today is basicly a PowerPC chip and bog-standard GPU hardware with crappy drivers that don't utilize even a fraction of the power available. I find it facinating that custom hardware was what made the Amiga famous, and for the last 15 years Amiga fans have been arguing about what brand of CPU is to be used (remember, folks, x86 is evil). Once you've got your non-Intel CPU in place, the rest of the architecture is pretty much irrelevant. Wow.
As for the "new" OS 4.0, its internal design is still way too old and doesn't have any tools required for decent application development, let alone games.
Of course, it's worth pointing out that Amiga Inc. didn't even refactor AmigaOS to version 4.0. They wasted all their time working on a Java clone that nobody wants, and they outsourced the OS and hardware to other companies.
Is there ANY company out there besides Microsoft and Apple that knows how to make a new platform? There were dozens of computers in the 80's, and now practically everything is dead except 5,000 distros of the same Linux base.
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