Or even hardware that's affordable and use expansion cards that can be used for backwards compatibility... the 68k processors are still in production IIRC.

In all fairness, this little run of computers isn't a blip on Apple's radar. They bought PA to start making billions of Apple designed ARM processors.

Personally I would just buy a Mac g5 and though morph os on it same experience 8 times less than cost

How awesome would it be if they could get Power8 CPUs in there, those puppies puppies are 12 core and hyperthread 8 cores per core (if memory serves). Not sure how easy such a set up would be... But a guy can dream. ;)

There's a website Google it. I looked into buying one myself But too expensive. You're better off building a new PC . But if you want to run amiga OS by an old powerpc Mac much cheaper you probly get this experience

@BigLBA1 oh absolutely early Windows was such a dumpster fire in comparison to the well thought out Amiga. You plugged a mouse into the Amiga, it worked. You did that on PC it didnt recognise it and needed a driver and hand editing of config files. I think Windows98 started to show signs of getting there but I agree it wasn't until 2K that you had something you could trust would actually not crash daily haha. The 040 was an amazing upgrade though wasn't it? I can still remember eagerly going through all my 3D games to see how much faster they were or if they'd run at all. I do wish I'd kept the Amiga but I had to sell it to fund building a PC. Heartbreaking stuff heh

@BigLBA1 OOoh Lightwave user. I started in Imagine when it was given away free on the cover of Amiga Format. It barely ran. All my upgrades after that were chasing a better user experience in 3D, games were an afterthought. Cinema 4D was where I really cut my 3D teeth and weirdly 30 years later I'm still using Cinema 4D only it costs a hell of a lot more today haha. I wanted Lightwave so much but initially it was with the video toaster package wasn't it? Way out of a kids league there. But even when it went stand alone I think it was around £600. Cinema 4D was £85. No contest there. Not sure my memory is holding up well there but that's what I remember. What are you using today for 3D are you still into it?

THIS!

It was supposed to record better audio, but it lost it all sadly

Gutted dude, uv interviewed some cool people.

The A1222/Tabor is supposed to lower the price point. The question is whether the performance will be "good enough" and also what kind of availability there will be. A €500 Amiga is no good if you can't buy them anywhere.

Shoo! Move along!

+MadFranko008 AGA/OCS Graphic is old and only 8bit, and slow, Paula sound is only 8bit. I only care for modern hardware, I do not care if hardware is named Amiga, AmigaONE, Pegasus or Sam, hardware is hardware. For me there is only two types of hardware, old and obsolete, and new and modern. You should face facts, no on have the money or the time to make graphics chipset that is compatible with AGA and is somehow better then what AMD or NVIDIA makes.

+Niding I know of a chimney sweep whose business name is "Amiga" but what has any of that got to do with Amiga computers ??? nothing of course... The Amiga name and legacy may not mean much or anything to you and that's fine but to me and many others it does. And it's kinda odd for you to say "When it comes to what is or isnt the "Amiga" range, its not really that intresting." yet you take the time to comment on it... ;-) Not quite sure why can't use your A1200 for productivity such as spreadsheets, text & presentation as it's still just as capable of doing those things as it always was, so if I were you I would indeed "give it a try" once again... :-) The Amiga still does what it always has done and does those tasks well and in an environment that is actually enjoyable to use with an OS that's more elegant and user friendly than todays bloated poorly written and ill thought out OS's that Macs and PC's unfortunately run on... I know there'll never be another "genuine" Amiga nor will there ever be a new machine in my lifetime that has to even be called "Amiga". What they should be doing (people like Trevor) is build what most people consider affordable hardware with a brand new modern capable OS that contains all the elegance, user friendliness, user customisation and lean (ie: non bloated OS) system just like the original Amiga's were and fund the complete development of a full AGA Amiga emulator that people could run on it for their "Amiga needs" if they wish and sell it as such... A brand new competitive affordable by most machine that's not called Amiga or claiming to be the "future or saviour" of the Amiga but has all the features in it's OS that made the Amiga such a great machine & OS that people wanted to use in the first place rather than be basically lumped with the only two real choices of Microsoft or Apple OS's... that's the only sensible way to go to build anything loosely "Amiga" related that has a hope of catching on and being a profitable venture... Yes I know Trevor only built his machines for himself and it happened to flourish into a business and obviously the money side of things is not that important to him, but he's probably one of the only ones to invest real money and time in anything loosely "Amiga" related... I honestly don't understand why he continues down this path of building what most people consider hardware that is too expensive, too outdated that their not willing to buy or can't afford to buy and relying on it running an OS (OS4.x) that's taken longer to build than the Egyptian empire and still is nowhere near being capable as being a modern OS even to run on the "new" hardware which like I say many think is actually outdated... In other words, Best idea in a business sense would be to drop the Amiga name, drop all the bogus claims that such hardware is "the future of the Amiga" and build a new modern machine with a new OS that gives the same feel as and enjoyment to the end user that the original Amiga OS's did and let it run an "Amiga emulator" for those whom still want to use it for their "retro" needs... ;-)

+Kjetil Hvalstrand Not sure why you think I'd even care what you think regarding AGA/OCS etc... only thing I find sorta interesting is why you feel the need to tell me something about yourself that is of no significance or consequence to me !!! most odd... :-o "Face Facts" !!! erm... those aren't "Facts" you just stated. Those are nothing more than your opinions the only "FACT" here is you seem to under the illusion that your opinions are somehow relevant to me or anything for that matter... ;-)

+MadFranko008 Its just a name. Who cares ?

Here's the thing +Niding that many seem to miss... for me it's *not nostalgia* for me using the Amiga still is to this very day for my computing needs... *reality* and has been for 30 years solid... :-) Nostalgia is for those looking back to the past, the Amiga for me is the here and now as well as the future and will be till the day I kick the bucket... :-) It may well be simply nostalgia for some but not for all of us... :-)

PPC is not a dead platform, PowerPC is a cut-down version of the POWER ISA. If you need proof that POWER itself isn't dead, look up POWER9... It's really good. PowerPC is actually a superior architecture that is capable of emulating x86 (Intel) instructions, as well as standard RISC instructions. The problem is that system integrators keep using outdated, hot ass PPC cores (Nintendo for instance uses G3 chips for the Wii and Wii U, which have been inferior since 2001).

@@aidangerbofsky1301 what I meant to say as a dead architecture, it is dead in the consumer space most game consoles use arm or x86 PlayStation 4 uses an AMD base chip Xbox one uses an x86 base chip. Nintendo switch uses arm. Power 7 somewhat dying in the server space. Personally over at my work we are slowly transitioning from power 7 AMD epic . Because of performance per price and performance per watt. Personally I'm quite excited about the up-and-coming risc v architecture that is slowly gaining mainstream status. Back in the day powerpc was he quite capable architecture better than Intel back in the day x86 has jumped light years ahead of power architecture over the past 20 years. Power 9 has its niche applications certain parts in the server space but, most data centers and web servers are moving to x86 because of performance-per-watt/ performance per price

@@jackl7731 I agree with you about EPYC. EPYC/Zen is a brilliant and solved many of the problems with x84-x64 CPUs, espescially in regards to bandwith and thread scalability, and on top of all of that, It is really efficient per watt. To my knowledge the POWER9 Architecture (atleast as of 2018) is that it was on par with and sometimes even more efficient per watt than competing x86-x64 CPUs. My premise is more on the platforms potential the POWER Architecture if well optimized has inhearenlty more through put than the x86-x64 Architecture. In regards to RISC-V, I think that It has tremendous potential, but also think that that the segmenting of its ISA (M, A, F, G, G,..., ) will potentially kill it in the consumer market. There will just be to many different implementations of the ISA to make programming for it worthwhile. POWER9+ is now opensource just like RISC-V. It has been around for a while. It is fast (er than ARMv8 for sure), supports up to 8 threads per core, and is supported by a very large, stable company (IBM) that has made it clear that it is pursuing an agressive future roadmap for POWER. On top of this a consumer can buy (however expensive) a 100% opensource POWER9 Linux/BSD workstation today. This, with all of the Security vulnerabilities plaguing x86-x64, and even ARM CPUs, I think that a 100% opensource platform such as POWER or maybe RISC-V may be the best option, espescially in enterprise markets. I do love EPYC, RISC-V, and ARM, but to me they wont be nearly as viable in the longterm future as the POWER architecture.

@@aidangerbofsky1301 I do see power nine being used for AI and solving large mathematical problems like in Watson Powers 9 does have potential especially cuz it's coming a well-established company like IBM