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The Fastest Apple Mac is an Amiga - Fact or Fiction?

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An investigation into whether an accelerated Amiga running Mac emulation can outperform real vintage Macintosh hardware from the same era.

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What people say. Linked as an interesting demonstration of running classic Macintosh System 7 emulation on accelerated Amiga hardware.

einron Hacker News • Recommends

On “The Amiga Consciousness”

RetroManCave on YouTube had an interesting video recently that investigated the performance and capabilities of running a Mac emulator on an Amiga vs. a real 68k Mac, and which actually was faster: link to this video Very impressive stuff. Being able to run Mac software would mean access to Photoshop, Illustrator, QuarkXpress, Framemaker, Microsoft Word and Excel and other business/DTP software that unfortunately wasn't really available natively on Amiga. I suspect lots of people used Mac emulators to make their Amiga a viable school/work machine, in addition to all the creative fun and games the native platform afforded.

amatechaon Hacker News • Mentions

On “BeOS: The Alternate Universe's Mac OS X”

Check out this video0, basically an Amiga with an accelerator card potentially makes for the fastest environment to run 68k-based Mac OS (System 7) ... 0 link to this video

iuguyon Hacker News • Mentions

On “Ask HN: Oldest piece of hardware a user could access the internet with?”

I use it because I used them throughout the 90s and just find them really nice machines to use for a lot of things. Almost everything's offline first, but it's functional enough to get things done. Some things are more fiddly, but that's to be expected. Most of what I do is creative, a mix of Art, music, programming, writing. I've done things like covid data analysis, I've written the odd letter on there, some of my newsletter gets written on there. I also use it for things like Usenet, IRC, Telegram etc. There's also a lot of really good games for it. I've heard classic 68k Mac owners have similar experiences. Of course, some say the Amiga is also the fastest classic Mac1. 1 - link to this video