Lets Grok a futuistic Amiga

[Pyromania]

I asked Twitter's AI now X what a futurist Amiga looks like.

Show me a futurist Amiga computer.

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Oh, you want to see a futuristic Amiga computer? Well, hold on to your floppy disks because I've got just the thing for you!

Picture this: a sleek, silver Amiga with a holographic display and a built-in time machine. This bad boy can not only run your favorite Amiga games, but it can also transport you to the year 2024, where you can witness the release of the A600GS, the cheapest Amiga home computer ever.

But that's not all, folks! This Amiga comes with AmiBench, a fork of OS4 with AROS code in it. It's like having a Swiss Army knife of operating systems, all in one futuristic package. And let's not forget the emulation and libs that can take advantage of the ARM CPU to speed things up. It's like having a turbo boost for your Amiga!

And if you're worried about compatibility, don't be. This Amiga comes with Personal Paint (PPaint) V7.4, OctaMED V8, and Final Writer V7, so you can create stunning graphics, compose epic chiptunes, and write your memoirs, all on one machine.

But wait, there's more! This Amiga also comes with tons of great utilities to get you started, like Directory Opus V4, EaglePlayer, HippoPlayer, Dock, Clock, and Calendar. It's like having a personal assistant that's also a time-traveling Amiga.

So, what do you say? Are you ready to take a trip to the future with this futuristic Amiga?
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John Bull
@garius
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Jan 28, 2023
front mounted cd rom and disk drives in a curving blue case that looks like someone cut the back half off a turtle

We don't talk enough about the Amiga Mind Walker.

Escom's prototype new machine to save the Amiga line back in about 1995.

They ran out of money, so it never made it past prototyping. But look at it. LOOK AT IT.

(Apple certainly did)
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Anon Opin ??
@anon_opin
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Jul 14
If we had kept evolving the Commodore Amiga instead of switching to the PC, the human race would have transcended into omnipotent space beings by now.
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Arne
@AndroidArts
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Jan 27
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Amiga case mockup based on the X68000 and rumoured Amiga1000+ (1992) specs. I think the way forward for the Amiga at that point might have been to lean more towards gaming graphics than PC/Mac-competitor/video/HDproductivity/ZorroExpansions though. A beefy computer-SNES.
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Nostalgia Nerd
@nostalnerd
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Mar 6, 2018
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This is the "Mind Walker". A prototype machine under Amiga's Escom period. It would have been a higher performing AGA machine, but sadly was canned when Escom went into liquidation #Amiga #Computers
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CommodoreBlog
@CommodoreBlog
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Aug 18, 2019
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The Walker is a prototype Amiga developed and shown by Amiga Technologies in late 1995/Early 96. It was planned as a replacement for the much loved A1200. Read more about it here: http://blachford.info/computer/walker/walker.html
#Amiga #GamersUnite
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TheMekon_Venus
@TheMekon_Venus
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May 2, 2023
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In 1993 Amiga Format magazine ran an article about the Amiga of the future.

Specs included : -

?A colour LCD screen
?Built in CD ROM
?2mb RAM

Yet no mention of 3D acceleration.

More of an evolution than a revolution I think.

Interesting design though.
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In Search of Tomorrow
@80sscifidoc
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Dec 26, 2021
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Introduced in 1985, the Commodore Amiga computer was designed to be a graphics-intensive machine. The special effects in ROBOCOP (1987) were generated with the Amiga.

Did you own an Amiga personal computer?

#80s #scifi #80sscifi #sciencefiction #nostalgia #movies #80smovies
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Amiga Reposts
@AmigaReposts
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Jun 21, 2023
AmigaGPT is a text generation program that runs on the classic AmigaOS. Utilising the power of the OpenAI's GPT-3 and GPT-4 architectures, this program brings state-of-the-art language modeling to your Amiga computer. https://github.com/sacredbanana/AmigaGPT #Commodore #Amiga

[Bruce Abbott]

Originally Posted by Pyromania

I asked Twitter's AI now X what a futurist Amiga looks like.

Did you really, or is this just another one of your fake posts?

[Amigajay]

Should have just asked Hammer

[dreadnought]

Originally Posted by amigajay

should have just asked hammer

:d

[Cris1997XX]

Yeah, Hammer is absolutely the expert and he knows everything about the Amiga (Not like he's talking out of his butt or what)

[minator]

I asked an Ai (Llama 3) but the answer was a bit bland, Chat GPT gave a more interesting answer suggesting Commodore might have eventually bought ATI or Nvidia.

Where the Amiga would have gone is an interesting thought experiment.
Given what we know did happen in the rest of the market, and what was in the pipeline, what could have happened?

So, if Commodore had shipped the AAA and then Hombre as a console and graphics card, what would then happened?

They would have hit a series of problems in the 90s / early 2000s: The 68K went embedded and the PA-RISC series chips died completely. The OS would also have been seen as increasingly outdated.

68K could have been replaced with PowerPC.
PA-RISC (the embedded processor in Hombre) could have been replaced with something like Strong ARM.

For the OS they could have re-worked AmigaOS to include memory protection but it wouldn't have been easy. They may have ended up doing what Apple did and just bought a new OS - something like BeOS would have done nicely - but what if it had been NeXT???

The chipset would have had increasing competition from PC graphics vendors so development would have become increasingly expensive. On the desktop that may have mean switching to using PC graphics cards or (as Chat GPT suggested) buying ATI or Nvidia and becoming a PC graphics card vendor.

Into the 2000s PowerPC would have become a problem as they dropped out of the desktop market, there were some more available for a while but eventually they would have had to switch to something else.

One intriguing option would have been to use the Cell processor alongside a PPC970. That would have made for a multi-media monster. According to some game developers, it took the PC CPUs over a decade to catch up with the Cell SPE cores. However, the Cell in the PS3 might have been for Sony only, but they could have used the PowerXCell 8i - IBM's version that included double precision floating point and could access more memory.

If they had used StrongARM etc. in the hombre successors that would have been OK for games systems but probably not for desktop, so it may have gone to x86.
But Arm based games system could have led them down the same path as Apple ending up on Arm64.

Overall
If the Amiga had moved away from custom parts it'd have ended up similar to a modern PC.
If they'd stayed with the custom parts, it'd have ended up looking more like a modern Mac.

[Pyromania]

Originally Posted by Bruce Abbott

Did you really, or is this just another one of your fake posts?

Yes, that’s the result that Grok showed me. If you pop by for a Beer or Manhattan next time you’re in Chicago I’ll buy you one and show the same result live.

[Karlos]

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07566-y

This might already be happening. Just look at Hammer