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Originally Posted by Hewitson
Irrelevant as in 1994 most people still had a 500. A 486 CPU would have emulated this perfectly, as well as paved the way for cheap, powerful Amigas in the future.
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So you want what ? That A500 owners throwed their A500 in the bin for a machine that costs a lot more and isn't even more powerful ? Or that they bought an accelerator board that does not make their machine faster ?
People who had an A500 just wanted to keep it. Else they would have bought an A1200 like i did, which would have been a magnitude better than a 486 emulating an A500 - and cheaper than 486, especially a DX4/100.
Not to mention little-endian x86 does not integrate very well with Amiga hardware.
And i doubt by the time they could afford the development time of such an emulation.
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Originally Posted by Hewitson
The wrong decision was made. Anyone who thinks the move to PPC was the right one is kidding themselves.
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Right, but switching to x86 would have been even worse.
PPC at least were faster than what they were supposed to replace.