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Re: Amiga in a 3.5 Inch Bay
« on: May 14, 2011, 05:27:22 PM »
A 3.5" would be great, but honestly, a 5.25" would be almost as good.  Most computers still come with DVD drives.  That means that most cases still have the drive bay for a 5.25" device, yet most people don't use their DVD drive.  On most of my computers, I would probably use and Amiga more than I would the DVD.  In fact, I have mostly moved to a single USB dvd drive passed around the house when needed.

The key would be to be able to pass the keyboard/mouse AND display into the PC itself.  Dedicated ports would be good, but being able to click on a window in your primary OS to bring up a window that displayed the output of a hardware Amiga would be cool.

Best of all would be to have two joystick ports on the front, AND having the joystick data passing bi-directionally to the PC connection.  That way you could use 9-pin joysticks as HID devices, and PC joysticks to control the hardware Amiga.