I later got an Amiga 500 at a convention for a good price but gave it away to a friend later who was making a computer museum.
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Replacements were expensive so I got a 386 clone and ran DOS and Windows for less than the cost of fixing the Amiga 1000.
My Amiga 1000 broke apart, first the keyboard failed and then the floppy drive. Whomever is doing AmigaOS or MorphOS or whatever wants to be another Apple with hardware lock in, and following the old Apple business plan of the PowerMac instead of the new Apple business plan of merging with a Unix OS and going open source ala Darwin. It all ended in the early 1990s when Commodore went out of business. There is still a niche market for retro tech.
Even if the Amiga One uses that SAM440 chip used in Microwave Ovens it runs very fast because of the low overhead of AmigaOS. There are CPU accelerators for every Amiga out there to replace the 68K CPU with a PowerPC or 68040 emulated custom chip. AmigaOS runs on a low memory footprint and uses low CPU cycles. These people love their Amigas because they don't have the bloat or crap that modern systems have. The more modern AmigaOS 3.1 and up have more apps for them via open source and shareware. The old Amigas were very reliable, and the Guru Errors got fixed as of Kickstart 2.0 and up. Martin uses a DOS machine with Wordstar because he finds it more reliable than Windows. Some people use DOS machines with a Pentium 1 or 486 chip because they were made before backdoors got added. Most of those people using an Amiga don't like Apple or Microsoft and want an alternative that is not Linux or used with a modern computer that might have an NSA backdoor in it.Įven if they used Linux the BIOS might have some sort of backdoor in it.
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