[coco] wondering about 68k machines

James C. Hrubik, Sr. jimhrubik at earthlink.net
Sat Jul 9 19:57:35 EDT 2005


Don't know about the Amiga end, but there are tons of 68030 and 68040 
Macs available for cheap, and they should run penguin stuff.


On Jul 9, 2005, at 7:06 PM, RJRTTY at aol.com wrote:

> In a message dated 7/9/05 4:58:13 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
> gene.heskett at verizon.net writes:
>
> << -)  Yes, I've been in that boat too, finding some of my amiga stuff
>  where I least expected it.  Do I care now?  No, my machine died.   >>
>
>     I have been thinking of getting an old 68k machine like the
> Amiga 500.     I always wanted a 68k machine but never got
> around to getting one.     I guess I was subconciously always waiting
> for a 68k based coco4 from Tandy.
>
>          How hard is it to get hardware and software support for the 
> Amiga
> nowadays.  Would it make a good approximation to what a 68k coco4
> would be or would the Atari 520 ST be a better example.    It's clock 
> is 8 Mhz
> I think?     Does that make it 4 times faster than the coco3?  Does it
> "feel" 4 times faster when executing machine  code or basic?
>
> just wondering if it would be worth the trouble...
>
> Roy
>
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