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Yep. 32 megs of RAM was unheard of on an Amiga.

Not completely unheard of but I get your point :). Babylon 5's pilot's animations (and I believe opening credits) was rendered in 1993 on sixteen souped-up A2000s, each with 32 MB of RAM.

https://www.generationamiga.com/2020/08/30/how-24-commodore-...

That's pretty cool. I know 32 megs was technically possible with the right boards, I just didn't know any normal person that had one. I had an A3000 with 5 megs (4 megs fast, 1 megs chip) and I thought it was bad ass for the time.

I had a CyberstormPPC with a 604e/200MHz and a 68060/50MHz, and 128MB of RAM onboard. There was also a DKB3128 with another 128MB of RAM.

“Big” Amigas weren’t common, but they definitely existed.

Oh, and I was a college student at the time.

CyberstormPPC was $1000 when it came out in 1997. Thats more than Pentium 200, good motherboard, case, sound card, graphics and 3Dfx accelerator. 128MB was $400-800 and not even top end systems shipped with that much.

I had moved on to Linux / x86 by that point.

Yes, but I didn’t want a Pentium 200. I wanted a fast Amiga.

That must've been an awesome machine. You were a god among Amigans!

Yes, but it‘s not surprisingly high for a 1996 PC game.

"You needed AT LEAST a fast 486, and preferably a pentium, to run this on the PC. Being upset that an 030 isn't supported is ridiculous. Reminds me of the people back in the 90s that complained that SimCity2000 didn‘t run smoothly on their 1200.“

https://old.reddit.com/r/amiga/comments/1mp1z3v/29_years_lat...

It is an Amiga, thus it does not have to draw everything via CPU like the PC version.

Expecting 030 to work is not at all unreasonable, and it's also a very common A1200 configuration these days.

Sure, but what defined Amigas were 7-8 MHz CPUs with a lot of dedicated chips for graphics, audio, etc.

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