Yay Wegster :)

Possible ... not likely unfortunately... For many in the gaming world, the original Playstation was seen as the sucessor to the A1200, and the diversity of the games resulted in that being accepted all the more. Two generations on we have a machine thats at the cutting edge even MORE so that the A500 was at a potentially similar price point... Hell the hardware architecture screams Amiga... all thats missing is the Amiga OS!

(for reference the Amiga comparison was used to describe the Amiga around sept 1995... Wipeout, GTA, etc etc all from Amiga developers who had to move on.. hell the original GTA was originally suppose to be an Amiga game... Sony ate up Amiga games companies in the form of Psygnosis and Millenium as they could no longer afford to support the AGA Amigas... It time for things to turn full circle and give the games industry a shot in the arm with a bedroom development platform with a mainstream teen userbase to develop talent for the industry in the old way to avoid the formulaic teaching that the current generation are relying on.

Ahem... I will get off my soapbox now..

Last edited by SvenHarvey on 15-Mar-2006 at 06:50 PM.

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@SvenHarvey

..You seriously believe there will be a port of OS4 for the PS3?

LOL

I think the new IS relevant. If Hyperion and the powers that be see it as a possibility then that is an amazing opportunity. Just think of the millions of people who would get to use a real usable OS sitting down in front of their TV screens.

....lets just hope that there are some killer apps to deliver with the OS too. Lets face it; it doesn't matter how good the OS is if you can't do anything cool on it.

@Philips

Yes there will be a port of OS4 to the PS3. No doubt about it. Once the cell support has been added to the OS which IS on the way, it wont take long for some nutcase to get it running on the PS3... Wether it happens officially however is another thing entirely and I hope for the Amiga platforms sake that it does as its our last hope (and best hope for a long time) to get the Amiga OS and way of doing things back into the mainstream.

All it takes is a little imagination from Sony, and SCEE is made up of a lot of people from companies like Psygnosis. Plus I know people at SCEE were after A1s, when they were available.

A guy can hope...

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Well, I'm interested in this kind of news. For both the Cell & the PS3.

I have no problem with this being on here as news. Besides, it IS in the Misc News section.

FuZion.

@SvenHarvey

I think the Playstation1 was more a sucessor to the CD32 then to the A1200.

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Sony DID do the CD interface for the CD32 after all... not that Sony got too many ideas from that project *looks at the expansion bay at the back of his PS2 next to the one on the CD32...*

To be fair though, while the CD32 sort of got people used to the idea over here (along with the Mega CD, CDTV and CDi) of a CD based console, the mass migration of Amiga gamers was from the A500/1200 to the Playstation. Hell Amiga technologies didnt choose the right release date for the Magic Pack either... it launched in the UK the same day as the Playstation... Now which shall I choose... Pinball Mania or Wipeout....

(BTW I was working for EB at the time :) back in the days when I had Playstation games and Amiga games next to each other in my store :))

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Another OS4 hardware plateform that is delayed.

:(

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I wonder if you will have to stand this console vertically or upside down to get the machine to read these newfangled discs after three months of use lol. Frightening that this is first generation blue ray stuff too.

They must have gone back to the original plan with Japan first, North America second, and Europe a distant third...

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