@all ppl going on and on and on about the 'yay great new commodore amiga woohoo'

This is an Amiga forum for computers that run AmigaOS, AROS or MorphOS not Ubuntu, Debian etc...

An Amiga is defined by its roots. Its roots are firmly embedded with its operating system which has always been called the Amiga Operating System - or in short-hand AmigaOS.

All Commodore is offering is a bog-standard PC that can run a multitude of operating systems that it (Commodore/A-Inc whoever) has zero control over.

And the official Amiga Operating System which is what makes an Amiga an Amiga will not run on it; so hence it can't truly be an Amiga. Full stop, end of story.

If you buy one of these then the only amiga-like operating system that you can run is the Amiga Research Operating System that is stuck firmly in the 20th Century.

If you buy one of these and look forward to a great Amiga-like experience you are in for a shock; a big let down.

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opi wrote: @Dandy Quote: Amiga ≠ x86 Using your logic PPC is also out of the loop, too. There was never a computer called Amiga that was shipped with PowerPC chip.

But there ARE computers that are called "Amiga" and have been expanded with an accelerator with an PowerPC chip onboard.
I have one of them.

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opi wrote: Yet, there was a project that married X86 and AmigaOS blessed by Amiga, Inc. Amithlon.

I never bothered with Amithlon - isn't it a sort of emulation like AmigaForever, that was also blessed by AInc (or was it still called Amiga Technologies International back then)?

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opi wrote: For years I was saying that I brand "Amiga" whatever I feel worthy.

Nothing wrong with that.

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opi wrote: You then said that it's not my call because there's a company that set up rules for that brand name. Now, when I play devil advocate and say that if CUSA got a deal with Amiga, Inc they are within the rights to use it, you guys spin on a dime and get all hippy on me: "You can, like, own a brand, man. It's an idea, man! We're true to the spirit of a brand, not the evil overlord." You either like idea of Amiga and follow AROS, MorphOS or AmigaOS4 or you follow Amiga and you're happy to get yourself a cheap PC.

You must confuse me with someone else - IIRC, I haven't replied to you in this thread up to now...

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opi wrote: @Dandy Quote: Amiga ≠ x86 Using your logic PPC is also out of the loop, too. There was never a computer called Amiga that was shipped with PowerPC chip. Yet, there was a project that married X86 and AmigaOS blessed by Amiga, Inc. Amithlon.

You are right, there never was a computer called Amiga that shipped with PPC chips. But the PPC boards that were were also 'blessed' by Amiga, Inc.

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