[XCSSA] Current Amiga stuff

[xcssa@xcssa.org]

I have 3 68030 amigas, one in use, two as annually restarted to keep  
the caps in shape backups.

I'm going to try AmigaForever on my PC to get back in touch with some  
of my old favorite programs.

Sad to say, I think PPC is becoming irrelevant since Macs moved on to  
intel.  Only IBM is keeping it alive now, typically in invisible  
clusters running linux.

Thanks for all the Amiga news though.

Speaking of old hardware, and emulation, in the last 10 years there's  
been a lot of movement to retro analog stuff in music, but I don't  
see anything my all digital Kurzweil K2661 can't do.  I drool over  
ancient Oberheim ObX's and Modular V Moogs, among others, but who can  
afford the annual maintenance, let alone the collectible price, and I  
hear a $199 Arturia minimoog (or Modular V) is a much better deal and  
sounds about the same.  Even softspoken Bob Moog himself never dissed  
digital, he said different strokes, though he brought back the  
minimoog as the Voyager just before he died and it became an instant  
classic.

There's an outfit called "Club of Knobs" bringing back massive modern  
hardware equivalents to Modular V, by subscription.  You can maybe  
afford one new module per year until your floorboards break under the  
weight.

BTW, next on my replacement block is my BW Power G3.  Browsing is  
just getting too slow.  Next year my plan is to get one of the next  
generation Power Macs.  Talk is they are coming out in January with  
Penryn.  If they don't look that much better, or go up in price, I  
might try to get a blowout 4x2.6.  I use a 4x3.0 at work, where it  
powers my monitor nicely.

Charles

On Dec 6, 2007, at 8:24 PM, xcssa-admin@xcssa.org wrote:

> Havent tried OS4 because I dont have a PPC based Amiga
> classic.
>
> Minimig is a 68k Amiga "computer", Amiga1 is a PPC
> based system, not worth the money.
>
> ACK board is vapourware.
>
> AmigaForever is good stuff.
>