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Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: What would you buy for classic Amiga?
« on: November 11, 2014, 02:09:10 AM »
I'd love to see a modern '040 or '060-based A2000 accelerator, with SCSI+IDE and 128MB of RAM.  I won't hold my breath.  ;)
Amiga 500: 2MB Chip|16MB Fast|30MHz 68030+68882|3.9|Indivision ECS|GVP A500HD+|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|Cocolino|SCSI DVD-RAM
Amiga 2000: 2MB Chip|136MB Fast|50MHz 68060|3.9|Indivision ECS + GVP Spectrum|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|AD516|X-Surf 100|RapidRoad|Cocolino|SCSI CD-RW
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Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: What would you buy for classic Amiga?
« Reply #1 on: November 11, 2014, 06:56:12 PM »
Am I the only one who would want '040/'060 compatibility, and not just "a really fast 68000"?  Oh well, nice to dream, anyway!  ;)
Amiga 500: 2MB Chip|16MB Fast|30MHz 68030+68882|3.9|Indivision ECS|GVP A500HD+|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|Cocolino|SCSI DVD-RAM
Amiga 2000: 2MB Chip|136MB Fast|50MHz 68060|3.9|Indivision ECS + GVP Spectrum|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|AD516|X-Surf 100|RapidRoad|Cocolino|SCSI CD-RW
 Amiga videos and other misc. stuff at https://www.youtube.com/CompTechMike/videos
 

Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: What would you buy for classic Amiga?
« Reply #2 on: November 11, 2014, 11:49:47 PM »
Quote from: mrmoonlight;777129
Hi really really want some kind of adapter to make the brilliant mp3 mas player fit my equally brilliant Amiga 600.

http://kipper2k.com/amigaforsale/

A600 Mouse/Joystick Extender.  Bottom of the page.
Amiga 500: 2MB Chip|16MB Fast|30MHz 68030+68882|3.9|Indivision ECS|GVP A500HD+|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|Cocolino|SCSI DVD-RAM
Amiga 2000: 2MB Chip|136MB Fast|50MHz 68060|3.9|Indivision ECS + GVP Spectrum|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|AD516|X-Surf 100|RapidRoad|Cocolino|SCSI CD-RW
 Amiga videos and other misc. stuff at https://www.youtube.com/CompTechMike/videos
 

Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: What would you buy for classic Amiga?
« Reply #3 on: November 12, 2014, 06:03:08 AM »
That Natami went bust is a crying shame.  It would've probably been the one bit of truly "new" Amiga hardware I seriously would've spent money on.  :(
Amiga 500: 2MB Chip|16MB Fast|30MHz 68030+68882|3.9|Indivision ECS|GVP A500HD+|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|Cocolino|SCSI DVD-RAM
Amiga 2000: 2MB Chip|136MB Fast|50MHz 68060|3.9|Indivision ECS + GVP Spectrum|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|AD516|X-Surf 100|RapidRoad|Cocolino|SCSI CD-RW
 Amiga videos and other misc. stuff at https://www.youtube.com/CompTechMike/videos
 

Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: What would you buy for classic Amiga?
« Reply #4 on: November 12, 2014, 03:55:16 PM »
Quote from: slaapliedje;777174
Nice! I think someone did one for the A1000 as well, though it wasn't a full replacement, I think you had to get the chips yourself, if I recall correctly.

I think it'd be sweet if we could get a massive 'build your own Amiga kit.' like they used to do with the computer kits back in the 60s-70s.

The GBA board.  Basically used A3000 chips in a drop-in A1000 form factor motherboard.

http://www.gb97816.homepage.t-online.de/a1kboard.htm

I'd love a "build your own Amiga" kit!  :)
Amiga 500: 2MB Chip|16MB Fast|30MHz 68030+68882|3.9|Indivision ECS|GVP A500HD+|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|Cocolino|SCSI DVD-RAM
Amiga 2000: 2MB Chip|136MB Fast|50MHz 68060|3.9|Indivision ECS + GVP Spectrum|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|AD516|X-Surf 100|RapidRoad|Cocolino|SCSI CD-RW
 Amiga videos and other misc. stuff at https://www.youtube.com/CompTechMike/videos
 

Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: What would you buy for classic Amiga?
« Reply #5 on: November 23, 2014, 08:06:39 AM »
Quote from: amigadave;778051
I think that improvements to the AGA chipset performance and features (including higher resolutions and color depth choices, as well as the ability to access greater than 2mb of Chip RAM), by using FPGA chips

Out of curiosity, how would this work?  I know this is basically how the IndivisionECS works, by replacing Denise with an FPGA (and from what I understand, the ECS model is actually more advanced than the IndivisionAGA, since the ECS can operate without the Denise chip entirely)...  but since most AGA chips are SMD, are you proposing something like a "super IndivisionAGA", that would graft onto the top of the AGA chips, hijack their signals, and enhance them?  Or something entirely different, that might fit in the video slot of big box Amiga's?  Just trying to wrap my brain around how this might work.  ;)
Amiga 500: 2MB Chip|16MB Fast|30MHz 68030+68882|3.9|Indivision ECS|GVP A500HD+|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|Cocolino|SCSI DVD-RAM
Amiga 2000: 2MB Chip|136MB Fast|50MHz 68060|3.9|Indivision ECS + GVP Spectrum|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|AD516|X-Surf 100|RapidRoad|Cocolino|SCSI CD-RW
 Amiga videos and other misc. stuff at https://www.youtube.com/CompTechMike/videos
 

Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: What would you buy for classic Amiga?
« Reply #6 on: November 23, 2014, 08:07:09 AM »
Quote from: magnetic;778052
Never going to happen unless its FPGA because those cpus are cost prohibitive.

Yeah, yeah.  Thanks for shattering my dreams.  :roflmao:
Amiga 500: 2MB Chip|16MB Fast|30MHz 68030+68882|3.9|Indivision ECS|GVP A500HD+|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|Cocolino|SCSI DVD-RAM
Amiga 2000: 2MB Chip|136MB Fast|50MHz 68060|3.9|Indivision ECS + GVP Spectrum|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|AD516|X-Surf 100|RapidRoad|Cocolino|SCSI CD-RW
 Amiga videos and other misc. stuff at https://www.youtube.com/CompTechMike/videos
 

Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: What would you buy for classic Amiga?
« Reply #7 on: November 24, 2014, 09:33:00 PM »
Quote from: alphadec;778159
So standalone system will be released somewhere around 2017.. ?

Haha, it's a trap!  Never give a specific date otherwise people will hold you to it and roast you over a flame in public forums if you miss it.  Or in other words, "Two more weeks!"  ;)
Amiga 500: 2MB Chip|16MB Fast|30MHz 68030+68882|3.9|Indivision ECS|GVP A500HD+|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|Cocolino|SCSI DVD-RAM
Amiga 2000: 2MB Chip|136MB Fast|50MHz 68060|3.9|Indivision ECS + GVP Spectrum|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|AD516|X-Surf 100|RapidRoad|Cocolino|SCSI CD-RW
 Amiga videos and other misc. stuff at https://www.youtube.com/CompTechMike/videos
 

Offline Oldsmobile_Mike

Re: What would you buy for classic Amiga?
« Reply #8 on: December 06, 2014, 10:26:59 PM »
Quote from: anglosaxonusa;779149
The end of all this is to enable classic Amigas to surf the internet. A high clock CPU, high system bus speed, high resolution graphics, and high network throughput would in combination make classic systems far more usable for practical things (such as reading this site).

Hey now, I can read this site just fine on my A2000 (using the proxy).  IMHO an updated web browser would go a long way to allow users of upgraded classic systems to browse the web.  Sure, you're not going to get Flash on a classic system, but I'd pay good money even for an update to Ibrowse!

All the hardware in the world isn't going to help if there's no software to run on it, but you have some good ideas.  :)
Amiga 500: 2MB Chip|16MB Fast|30MHz 68030+68882|3.9|Indivision ECS|GVP A500HD+|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|Cocolino|SCSI DVD-RAM
Amiga 2000: 2MB Chip|136MB Fast|50MHz 68060|3.9|Indivision ECS + GVP Spectrum|Mechware card reader + 8GB CF|AD516|X-Surf 100|RapidRoad|Cocolino|SCSI CD-RW
 Amiga videos and other misc. stuff at https://www.youtube.com/CompTechMike/videos