What if ?

[leirbag28]

@swift240

Let me see if I can answer you "Swiftly" :-)


1) 8Mb ChipRAM standard (upgradable to 32mb via 72pin SIMM)
2) 68060 as standard (removable) and all chips removable
3) 4 SIMM slots on the Mobo (up to 512mb RAM) or maybe PC133 RAM
4) S-Video OUT as standard with the ability to force PAL into NTSC always 100% ON  or NTSC to PAL for UK users
5) a seperate VGA out with the output already scan doubled while still maintianing S-Video OUT in NTSC via the RGB and S-Video Ports
6) AAA Chipset (or at least an entirely new Gfx mode thats compatible with AGA and ECS but displays 16 Million on WB. It should be real cheap to do this as one can maybe Pay ATI for the rights on one of their old NTSC chipsets or even Faroudja (preferably)
7) 24bit sound chips with MP3 decoder x4 (Can decode 4 MP3 at once)
2 Gigabyte sized Kickstart ROM or at least capable to add this. (Why?  so you can put more software in it, like DVD display menu, VCD Menu, AudioCD menu.....(Think CD32 or Sony PSOne) WinAMP type Visuals in the ROM so one can play CD with Visuals and control them as well as add your own Gfx.....You have No idea how ESSENTIAL this is!
9) USB 2.0 as standard.......or Ethernet Port or 32bit CardBus instead of PCMCIA
10) SATA Harddrive port instead as well as the IDE one (Buffered)

Thats my Top Ten list in that exact order  for an A600/A1200

[leirbag28]

@swift240

Well yes.........I would prefer 64mb of CHIPRAm if it wer to be done.......able to be upgraded to 2gigs of ChipRAM/Video memory.  and 4 gig FastRAM. I belive this to be totally doable and totally necessary for anyone to be interested..........

There is one more option I wanted to add to the list:

11) A Pentium 4 Chip Slot to drop in a P4 chip if one gets a hold of one........and uses the Amiga Mainboard for all the necessary components it needs..........such as Sound, Video/Gfx input and outpts...........with Amiga Drivers on the PC side if necessary so that no other components are neceassry.................think of it as an ATOnce type thingy that they had for the Amiga 500....except its Pentium 4 and embedded into the Motherboard so that one can run WindowsXP natively at at least 1ghz speed. Imagine being able to pull down the Workbench screen and right behind it is WindowsXP!   and running through the S-Video OUT port as well and the RGB port.......giving WindowsXP TRUE native Video OUT rther than the Squished Blurry crap it outputs now.

I can only dream of this........and See it as rather simple and should have been a necessary inclusion by Commodore even in 1994......of course back then it would have been a Pentium II option....heck I would have settled for Pentium I.

A friend of Mine overheard Irving Goulds daughter telling him about How her Father (or uncle...cant remember)  was Irving Gould and how he Ruined the opportunity to make Millions by bringing the company down........his own daughter/niece said this to my Amiga owning friend on the phone, who happened to be her Cable TV installer or something like that.

I thought it was an interesting coincidence and interesting conversation..............she lives here in NY.

Mayb I should try to contacte her myself for the Full Down Low :-)
You know........I may be willing to rehire Jack Tramiel to be the Owner of Commodore again and reopen its doors.......or at least to show me the ropes if I was owner of Commodore. Then I would release the Greatest Amiga the world has ever seen.

[leirbag28]

@Doobrey

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Which brings me to ask, what the hell you need that much memory for in an Amiga, especially if you're still using a 68k CPU ?
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For many many things!  For one........leaving your Amiga on For days Rendering Frames into FastRAM!  this will be faster!..............but also as an Example.........I constantly Run Multiple Video Applications at once and load Tons if not Hundreds of Animations into RAM for Rapid display LIVE......If I could load 1000 Animations into RAM I would......I use SCALA MM300 and Elan Performer and Max them Out totally..........then I do some Live VJing whenever I am at an event I was invited to or at the Night Club I used to work at, where I had my Amiga connected to 3 Projectors and probably 20 more Video nmonitors at once for 4 hours straight displaying different animations in realtime to the beat of the music.

Using about 4 applicatins at once.........just imagine if I didnt have to switch to a different app to get different visuals.or never running out of Animations or Video.

@Hyperspeed

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Oh, and a dedicated mouse port and two joypad ports so we don't have to fumble at the back of the machine when playing multiplayer!
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Yeah!  thats what I forgot!    4 joystick ports that each support more than 6 buttons for the Joypad and even Vibration feedback. :-)

[leirbag28]

@mr-a500

I just happen to dream Really big!  thats not even half the picture. :-)

I also belive in a good product and not putting out crap...and people accepting it because they at least take what they can get. You know what Im saying,.....Im sure you would want an Amiga with the Specs I mentioned at that time wouldnt you?

Im just saying what I would have done if I owned the company :-)

@Hellcoder

Amiga Already supports Touchscreen.........Ever heard of SCALA? ever heard of the SCALA ECHO EE100?  welll I have one and SCALA supports touch screen totally :-)