What counts as 'Amiga' in your world?

[Xanxi]

The first answer is made to ensure that a human is responding and that it is not the cat who is walking on the keyboard by mistake

 

[PhilipMcD]

Similar sentiments to mfilos, so I went with:

- Classic A500-A4000
- FPGA/Minimig (for me this is the future)
- AROS multiplatform (with kick replacement and 68k versions, it enters the race for me)
- WinUAE (you can hate me but I actually use this more than the real things these days)

 

[StrontiumDog]

Click away mate! lol

Motorola 68k Miggies for the win!! Anything else isn't a 'true' Amiga IMO.

Looks around for the 'like' button and realises I'm not on Facebook...

 

[Merlin]

Click away mate! lol

Motorola 68k Miggies for the win!! Anything else isn't a 'true' Amiga IMO.

Looks around for the 'like' button and realises I'm not on Facebook...

/Me likes the liking of the 'Like' button......

*gets stuck in an infinite loop*

 

[fitzsteve]

I read that as you were licking the like button :wooha:

 

[StrontiumDog]

I read that as you were licking the like button :wooha:

Don't give him idea's FGS! lol

 

[Harrison]

Similar sentiments to mfilos, so I went with:

- Classic A500-A4000
- FPGA/Minimig (for me this is the future)
- AROS multiplatform (with kick replacement and 68k versions, it enters the race for me)
- WinUAE (you can hate me but I actually use this more than the real things these days)

Exactly the same for me.

If the question had been "what do you consider to be a real Amiga?" then the answer would have been, "Only Commodore produced 68K Amigas".

However, as the question was what counts as Amiga, I think anything that can run 68K Amiga software. In this case, the classic Amiga hardware, emulation and new hardware that is designed to work the same way all count in my book.

 

[AmiNeo]

Click away mate! lol

Looks around for the 'like' button and realises I'm not on Facebook...

/Me likes the liking of the 'Like' button......

*gets stuck in an infinite loop*

Me likes that... :huh:

 

[commodorejohn]

I really only count 68k Amiga hardware or reproduction 68k Amiga hardware (Minimig, NatAmi.) I'm not going to snub my nose at anybody's PPC setup or what-have-you, but I don't think it's really the same thing, for whatever that's worth.

And C-USA can go to Hell.

 

[tokyoracer]

I seriously don't know how one can honestly say UAE is an Amiga. Sure it runs like one (sortof) but if it hasn't got the 68k hardware and the custom chips for real, how can that be an Amiga? By that logic you can just write Amiga on a PC case and sell it for a million pounds just because it has an emulator on it.
Oh wait that already exists. :roll:
Though i'd love to meet the person who thinks a Mac Mini with AROS installed is an Amiga. Sure it can read some Amiga filetypes but come on... It's not what one would call a fully fledged Amiga compatible really is it?


TO make it more clear, for me an amiga is something that can run WB 3.1 nativly, has a 68k CPU, a ticking floppy drive (or one that is always active at-least) and has either OCS, ECS or AGA.

 

[Mr B]

I find my self very confused when thinking about this topic. On one hand i don't care what provides the experience, as long as the experience is genuine. I use WinUAE with ADF's for my regular dosage of Amiga fun. But on the other hand i don't think of that as a "real Amiga experience."

I voted for 68K only.
B!

 

[Ed.D]

For me, when you say "Amiga", first and foremost its always a Classic Thats the one I grew up with, thats the one that ordinary people recognize as an Amiga. I dont have an issue with the newer PPC evolutions of the Amiga but for me its anything from the Commodore (and the Escom/Amiga Technologies) era

What he said +1

Also, Id' love to see the original Commodore guys and gals together again developing some new Amigas.

 

[mjnurney]

for me Amiga means my 1.2 A500 from 1988

when the Amiga was king! bring back Commodore !

why did people buy those funny looking dos / windows machines....they will never catch on?.

 

[rkauer]

Does it have a classic C= motherboard inside? From A1000 to A4000T.

I can't care less if the third-part CPU upgrade is not made by Commodore, but the thing must be an Amiga.

Anything else is just emulation of some sorts. By OS or by hardware, but still is not a true Amiga.

 

[jvdbossc]

I voted for everything exept product branding So PC cases sold with logo no no.

So this is on my list:

Amiga real stuff A1000-A4000.
Aros (support friendly)
Morphos (what a piece of ***) it is rather Amiga os, but support and friendlyness are not.
Amiga os 4 nothing has worked long enough to comment on this.

Hardware emulation: I am interested but no experience, A bit tempted for a commodore one :shhh:

 

[Powerpie5000]

I only see the classics as 'Amiga'... Anything else is not a 'real' or 'true' Amiga in my opinion

 

[quarkx]

Only the Classics. If Dave Haynie wasn't some how involved, it just doesn't seem right. Of course I lump the A1000, and A500 in there also, but if it ain't Commodore Produced (and I lump the Escomm ones in there also, because Commodore did do the work) it ain't Real.

 

[merlinkv]

I voted A1200, etc and also Classic PPC. But I don't feel OS4 is Amiga, I'm meaning more OS3.9 + WarpOS as it still connects to a real Amiga 1200/4000 and is backwards compatible with 68000 stuff.

Anything after that for me, is not Amiga

As Steve said OS4.x is not Amiga. For me Amiga's are 500-4000 in classic versions and with OS 1.x-3.x.

I have Classic PPC's but only few apps/games use the second CPU and the 98% of software is 68k.

So, voted for Classics A500-4000

All the best

 

[moijk]

I'll say Classic Amiga, however Amiga Compatible would be the fpga-stuff. Amiga Like would be emulator, aros, aos4, morphos and that like, and blatant abuse of a classical name would be something in a commodore case.

That is like the retro craze in cars. A new vw beetle is no beetle, a fiat 500 is not the old fiat 500 and the mini is by far not the old mini. Might be faster and better everything, but the spirit of the old car isnt there. The original mini was tiny, lightweight and quick because of that. the new is heavy, huge and currently expanding but at least its a homage, if anything.

 

[AmiNeo]

Yeah thats how I see all the newer stuff coming out. Theyre nods of respect, homages and attempts at recreating what once was. Only true Commodore Amiga parts are truely Amiga.