First Natami MX boards produced

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If this has a very high level of compatibility with original Amiga hardware banging software then it will be hard for me to resist.  I expect we won't see this actually for sale for about a year (needs lots of testing to make sure no further revisions are needed)?

Will it be possible to use original Amiga mice on the joyports and original Amiga MIDI interfaces on the serial port (with 9 to 25 pin adapter)?

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Will this be fast enough to run Audio Evolution with effects?  I know Audio Evolution really required a 68060 to run at a minimum level of useability.  The ability to run a decent multi-track audio DAW would be a requirement for me.

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Yes to both questions. The joy/mouse ports are banging the hardware registers exactly like on a C= machine. I think that the only serial peripheral you cannot use with the Natami serial port is Amiga serial port samplers (since the serial port audio leads are not there. But since there are oldschool parallel port samplers too, it isn't really much of a problem. Besides, we have hifi audio in... ).
I am going to be using an Amiga MIDI interface with my Natami myself.

Great!  What about original keyboards?  There was an old Natami Youtube video where they seemed to have an original A3000 keyboard hooked up.  That would be very nice.

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This is awesome!!! Finally a REAL Amiga.

Yup, this is the first piece of new hardware that I consider a real bonafide 100% Amiga.  I like all of the other options (X1000, MorphOS, UAE) but this is a REAL hardware Amiga in the classic sense.

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"You guys"?!
Look, someone made some statement like: "in your face, you people who thought this was vapor ware", and I simply responded that it still is! Because it is! And so is "x1000" BTW. And Clone-A. And..., and..., and...

Many are the Amiga related HW projects that was shelved after the first PCB's were made, but before real commercialization. *Most* projects in fact, much more than the few examples I showed pictures of above. Maybe it is because when you have your prototype ready, you have to start thinking about the economic reality. Commercial Viability, Risk Assessment, etc. Possibly this is a *much bigger challenge* than doing the engineering stuff, and that's why almost all projects fail in this stage. I'm not saying that the NatAmi will fail. I'm just saying it's way too soon to lift the "vapor" label from it. It has yet to face its biggest challenge...

You have a very valid point and say more clearly what I mean at the beginning of this thread when I said "I won't count the chickens before they are hatched".  Although I really want this product to be released (probably more than any other in recent years) I'll still only believe it when I see the unboxing videos on YouTube or the first buy reports.