A project I'd like to see from Jens...

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... or from someone else I guess...

I think it would be really cool to create a bridgeboard that plugs into the raspberry PI, or maybe plug it into the CPU slot or 500 expansion slot.

The PI has ethernet, usb, an SD card slot, memory, HDMI and composite video output, audio, and a lot of memory...  It would be great to give the amiga access to all that.

Maybe the video could even be used to emulate an amiga RTG board.

It could plug into the amiga board through the gpio port and pass it through so other things can be plugged in.

You could probably even hang a low profile PCI slot off the board.

Maybe even emulate a powerpc chip.

wishful thinking...

brian

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I think Jens should produce something that every Amiga lover buys and actually make a good profit for his efforts, support and loyalty.  I wish I knew what that product was, If I did I would tell him.  I don't think he should make anything people would "like" to see because that's just not financially viable. Not that I don't think the product you've outlined isn't a good idea.  I think most of it has good merit.

I realize if it's not cost-effective, it will never happen.  I'm just wishing out loud.

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Jens is smart enough to realise you don't need to mess around with attaching a totally unsuitable ARM SBC to an Amiga to get stuff you could get with an SPI master on the Amiga and some of the shelf parts.
I'm surprised that while you guys think up these "OMG you know what would be really cool" ideas you don't think outside of the box enough to realise that an ARM SoC many times more power than the fastest m68k Amiga could just emulate the whole thing.

First off, I'm a software guy, not a hardware guy.  So I really have no idea what it would take to create this sort of thing.  

Having said that, it seems to me that a $40 board attached with some mysterious chips to the CPU slot or something similar mixed with some drivers that talk to software running on the RPi would be cheaper and/or easier than implementing all those things from scratch.

Then again maybe not.  I'm thinking like a software guy and not a hardware guy.  

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Honestly the project I'd like to see the most out of a guy like Jens with his considerable talents is a high powered "Amiga on a card" that fits inside a PC.

Yeah, this is clearly the way to go, like a minimig type thing in an ATX form factor...  maybe with a DSP for audio processing, USB, ethernet, memory, indivision, memory cards, etc.   Maybe steal the chipset from a dying machine.

Or maybe make it fit a 500, 600, or 1200 case with a keyrah.

brian