3 more NatAmi's - Yippee!

[Kesa]

3 more NatAmi's for the developers!

Oh it's getting close  

http://www.facebook.com/pages/NatAmi/113794201992031

ps you have to scroll down a bit to find it

[Tripitaka]

Awesome, it all seems to be going well.

[Kesa]

I know! It's amazing. I actually am getting more confident of a full production release. I wonder how many they will make after beta testing is done? How much will they cost do you think? Less than $1000?

[Tripitaka]

Cheaper than an AGA Amiga with an 060, extra mem, fast ata etc.. that's for sure. Building a decent classic 'miggy is expensive and Natami will end up being not just the better, but also cheaper option.

[DCAmiga]

Yep cant wait to get my hands on one of these puppies, SuperAGA with all the new chunky modes, resolutions and 100-200 times faster than a classic AGA.
 
Gunner has been playing/tuning with the 060 card and says it can keep up with 600mhz PPC Amiga in mem copy.
 
MEMORY READ 145 MB/sec (Optimised Code)
MEMORY READ 114 MB/sec (Average Code)
MEMORY WRITE 155 MB/sec
MEMORY COPY 140 MB/sec
http://www.natami.net/knowledge.php?b=1¬e=39600&order=&x=3
 
He also says he isnt finished tuning it yet which is cool, I wonder how the N050 FPGA and the DDR2 memory will stack up to these results ;-)

[commodorejohn]

Boo-yah! I am eagerly looking forward to this.

[Hattig]

I guess the '060 is the limiting rate for memory reads/writes here!

The DDR2 should have gigabytes of bandwidth, I'm sure that the '050 softcore won't even be able to stress it, unless there's a really custom synthetic benchmark or hardware memcpy instruction (hmm, SuperAGA blitter?).

[commodorejohn]

Yeah, I don't think the 060 is exactly designed to handle 3200+ MB/s They probably went with DDR2 because it's the cheapest and most easily available memory standard these days. On the bright side, with that much bandwidth to go around, I imagine "chip RAM is slow" will be a thing of the past...

[Tripitaka]

Isn't it nice that Natami news seems to generate such positive threads. Makes a change with so many of us divided on X1000, Aros, OS4 and MorphOS issues. I think it bodes very well for the success of this platform.

[spihunter]

Isn't it nice that Natami news seems to generate such positive threads. Makes a change with so many of us divided on X1000, Aros, OS4 and MorphOS issues. I think it bodes very well for the success of this platform.

I thinks it's because a lot of folks on A.org are classic lovers first and 2nd generation Amiga second.
I have MorphOS and OS4 here but I still seem to enjoy the classic the best.

[TheGoose]

Great to see this. But how are they ever going to be able to make them more quickly? Is there going to be a "production run" ?

[spirantho]

Isn't it nice that Natami news seems to generate such positive threads. Makes a change with so many of us divided on X1000, Aros, OS4 and MorphOS issues. I think it bodes very well for the success of this platform.

Amen to that.

I get heartily sick of the usual suspects jumping on every post concerning whichever OS it is they don't like.  How I wish they'd just leave alone the threads that don't concern them.

On the plus side - Yay Natami! I know I'll be looking at buying one if I can muster the cash!

[Franko]

Man... I hope the NatAmi arrives before I kick the bucket...

Just imagine the software you could write to take advantage of the new GFX modes & all that speed as standard but the thing that tops it all off for me is the fact I can write all this new software in 68K Assembler and run it on OS3.x... that's my idea of heaven...

[Darrin]

Isn't it nice that Natami news seems to generate such positive threads. Makes a change with so many of us divided on X1000, Aros, OS4 and MorphOS issues. I think it bodes very well for the success of this platform.

That's because the FPGA Amiga range (Minimig, FPGA Arcade, Natami and even possibly the Chameleon64) are the closest things to our beloved original hardware available.

[giZmo350]

I'll definetly be buying one as it seems there's no sight of any new Sam460EX availability and the USD to Swiss Franc exchange rate for getting a new OS4.X machine from Relec is SKY HIGH! Kudos to the Natami Team!!!