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Does anyone have any idea how much of this could be done on stock Amiga hardware (without hardware upgrades)?

I’m not anti-upgrades—-just curious :)

Depends on the system. My A1200 (6mb Ram, HD) is same spec as it was back in the day will run Wordsworth, Protext and DPaint IV just fine but doesn’t really do web browsing. I added a basic PCMCIA WiFi card though and it copes with ftp okay over open WiFi.

Don’t expect a screen resolution anything like the ones shown in the article though and RAM and the 68020 become an issue fast working with a lot of recent files. The author has a lot more RAM than me and it definitely shows.

> Don’t expect a screen resolution anything like the ones shown in the article

Up to the 3000, IIRC, Amigas were tied to TV frequencies, so you wouldn’t get more than 200x640. You could do interlacing and get 400 lines, but you’d want to claw your ever out in 10 minutes.

I had an Amiga 1200 and got it working with a VGA monitor soldered onto the connector (like a VGA adapter on Ebay now) and a setup VGA file in Workbench 3. It looked great in 640x480, no chunkiness. So it is possible.

The 1200 launched after the 3000. I think it was the last model to be launched.

On my A600 with 1Mb RAM it was a challenge to use the internet, especially using a TCP/IP stack that had a MUI GUI (don't recall the name). I had to use a custom startup config where Workbench did not load to save memory, to be able to use AmIRC and the like, after connecting to the internet.

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