Joined: 12-Jan-2005 Posts: 2140
From: Cheshire, England
So we got a new high-end classic Amiga market merging, Vampire, Pistorm, A600GS, Emulation have all pushed the Classic Amiga platform and the 68k performance far above anything the original 68000 platform could do. I think the fastest 68060 was pushed on real hardware was 100Mhz. Most ran at 50mhz. Most users only ever had 68030 or 040 running around that speed, and these were great Amigas for their time. Again most users only had 8, 16 or 32mb of fast Ram only hard core Amiga fans and top end user had 128mb+ of Ram. Plus, the software that required this much was very little back in the day. Now thanks to these new platform we got 68000 system running as fast as PPC system! Now I know some may not like this, due to it being virtual or FPGA based but I just see these as tools bring us an Amiga platform we could only dear to dream about in 90s.
This new platform is starting to get an increase in software support, Amikit XE a high end Amiga Desktop system that was design more for emulation platform, due to it slow performance on classic Amiga, has finally come back on to the system, thanks to things like Vampire or Pistorm. Hollywood and Hollywood Designer runs so much better on these Enhanced Amiga's. Quake 2 port really works well on these platform ad so do many other high end 3d games that would struggle on real hardware.
Gorky 17 a 3d RPG game that Hyperion ported to AmigaOS4 will soon be ported to these Advance Amigas as well, hopefully proving that this new classic Amiga market is now here to stay.
Which leads me to this question what and if this new market needs a name and minimum spec to qualify be of this new platform. In a way I guess Vampire V4 system could be the formation of the minium spec being that Pistorm and Emulation system can push a bit above it grunt.
But as names, here my ideas "Classic Next Gen Amiga", "Advance Amigas", "Enhanced Amiga's", "New Amiga Market", "Amiga Plus", "68K+", "ClassicNG" what do you think and does this new platform need a name/ minium spec standards to help devs etc?
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