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PPC Amigas Go On Sale

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the brand-new-old-stock dept.

nastyphil writes "After a wait of almost 10 years and passing through a series of owners' hands, new Amiga hardware is on sale. G4 processors at up to 800 Mhz. Development of AmigaOS 4.0 has been continuing at a steady pace by Hyperion and will be ready for release early 2003."

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  1. The old days by arcadum · · Score: 1, Funny
    I hope this rekindles the experiences I had with my beloved amiga of before.

    Can it run OSX?

    1. Re:The old days by ideonode · · Score: 2, Funny

      I believe it can run MaconLinux which in it's turn can run Mac OS X.

      Shit. I misread that as "I believe it can run MalcolmX" ;)

  2. Paula? Is that you? by saihung · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm only interested if they rename the PPC chip "Even Fatter Agnus".

  3. Does anyone know... by Alsee · · Score: 3, Funny

    I wonder when they're coming out with the new Vic-20?

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  4. Will this new AMiga OS work? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    On the Amiga 1000 I have waiting in my closet? It doesn't need a harddrive, I hope. How many floppies, I wonder?

  5. Dear god... by megaduck · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...what a year! Mozilla hits 1.0, Warcraft III is released, Apple makes a rackmount server, and now Amiga finally releases new hardware.

    Hell must be a cold, cold, cold place by now. At this rate, I expect my quantum computer to arrive by Christmas.

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    1. Re:Dear god... by yelims · · Score: 5, Funny

      It's not like Duke Nukem Forever was released, though.

    2. Re:Dear god... by Erik+K.+Veland · · Score: 2, Funny

      More evidence:

      CmdrTaco switches to mac
      Dell sells iPods
      Amazon made a profit

      Now where's Duke Nukem Forever?

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  6. Re:Amiga DID have a textmode! by nicomen · · Score: 2, Funny

    What Amiga model was that? I never saw this in A500, A1200 nor A4000.

    Maybe it was one of the Atari Amiga models ?

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  7. Re:GUI by VirexEye · · Score: 2, Funny

    The GUI thinks you are ugly too.

  8. Re:Paula? Is that you? by woogieoogieboogie · · Score: 2, Funny
    I'm only interested if they rename the PPC chip "Even Fatter Agnus".

    That would be "Rubenesque Agnes" or perhaps "BBW Agnes"

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  9. A1200? by joncombe · · Score: 1, Funny

    They still have A1200s on sale! They must be at least 10 years old now. So who wants an A1200 with a massive 170MB hard disk (yes, MB not GB)?

  10. That's a switch by Interrobang · · Score: 3, Funny

    A friend of mine who's still using his Amiga of old has an amusing anecdote similar to this: At one time he had the "fastest Mac in the world" -- an Amiga running it under an emulator. He said the Apple guys were really pissed. :) (Hi, Knute!)

    I still miss my old Amiga. We had some good times. --snif-- I doubt I'll get this one, though, as it's probably more fun to sit around and be nostalgic in a diffuse kind of way.

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  11. mandatory by Lxy · · Score: 3, Funny

    Amiga.. the only way a /.'er can get a chick.

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  12. Re:Paula? Is that you? by operagost · · Score: 2, Funny

    Maybe they should just call it "Rosie". Now, that says FAT!

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