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Re: UltimatePPC and everything else
« on: May 23, 2012, 12:07:34 AM »
This is really what I've been wanting to happen.  A new PPC board that hopefully has a cost that doesn't make me feel like I'm being raped by the entire Amiga community.

Though I see that it's coming with a 2D video card with DVI?  Out of curiosity, and I'm asking this 'cause I don't know whether it would be possible, or if I'm just dreaming.... but weren't the 3Dfx drivers open sourced for Linux a very very very long time ago?  And I'm guessing that's why there ever were 3D drivers for the Amiga that works with the Voodoo cards.  But would it be possible to reverse engineer the hardware based on the software drivers?

I don't know if anything like that has ever been attempted, but wouldn't it be incredibly awesome to get the Voodoo chipset on this?  That would really make it the UltimatePPC.

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Re: UltimatePPC and everything else
« Reply #1 on: May 23, 2012, 01:59:13 AM »
I managed to get one on eBay.  Almost had a second one, but well... see this thread;

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=61682

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