Hardware assisted PC emulation

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

how feasible would be to replicate the old bridgeboards with modern cpus so that old janus works? a board with a i3/i5/i7 socket a ram slot and fpga emulating all other chips present in the bridgeboards (maybe problems with voltages and power?). why you ask? and why not?

Modern CPU is going to have all kinds of power requirements that an old Amiga PSU couldn't cope with.  Does Janus even support anything beyond 386/486?  Anything's feasible with enough $$$$.  One of these days I'm going to stick a Raspberry Pi in an Amiga 2000 case, not sure if I'll have room though???  :lol:

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Dang you guys, you actually had me feeling all nostalgic last night, and reading this article:

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_device_bit_rates#Computer_buses

Warmed my heart to see Zorro III ranked on there, for the era it could really hold it's own against the other buses out there!  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Nice Wiki Mike! BTW, I was going to mention that my Buddha only gets 1.3MB/s transfer rate... :furious:

A2000HD w/2MB Chip, 128MB Fast, P5:Blizz 2060@50MHz, 4GBHDD, Buddha, TrueIDE, XSurf100, RapidRoad, IndiECS, MiniMegi, CD-RW, Kitchen Sync, SunRize AD516, Toaster 2K, Toaster Flyer, WB3.9

Man, your sig line for your A2000 is getting long, Rog!    Don't worry, I got a little something-something coming to me from Finland for mine that I've spent two years trying to track down, it's anybody's guess if it'll work when it gets here though, but should help boost my spec a bit.  You still don't have a graphics card, though, and my 600x 8GB PFS-formatted CF card beats that speed, but not by a whole lot, I'm limited by the (relatively) slow interface on my GVP.  

Hey, just noticed - does your Toaster & Toaster-Flyer work under 3.9 or are you dual-booting?  I thought I remember reading in a couple places the Toaster software only worked up to Workbench 3.5?

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Graphics card.... Hmmm... I was also wondering, if the Toaster board goes in the video slot, how does one use a Toaster board, a video card and and accelerator all at the same time in an A2000? 16 colors with WB3.9 $ucks... :lol:

BTW, does this work? Anyone here tried it?
http://www.a1k.org/forum/showthread.php?p=508355

Switch to the Rebel palette!  It's beautiful under 3.9, especially if your use Super Plus 800x600 on the Indivision.

http://www.mfilos.com/2012/01/guide-making-workbench-prettier-using.html

Guess you'll have to research using a video card at the same time as a Toaster.  Since the Toaster only clicks on when you load it's specific software though it might be possible, right?  Worst case scenerio you dual-boot a 3.9 system with Picasso96 or CGX for your day-to-day, and a stock 3.1 or 2.x for when you want to use the Toaster.  Hummm....

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Uggggh! I wish there was a user's group here! :lol:  Hey Mikey, you wouldn't be getting a holographic teleporter card from Denmark would you? :roflmao:

I wish!

I know man, lack of users groups is pretty depressing.    Still gotta figure out my plan for going to that Amiga30 thing in Mountain View!  If I can figure it out then you can figure it out, hehe.  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

What's the Amiga30 thing? I think I missed that... :confused:

Denmark now... I meant Finland... You gonna keeps us in the dark till it arrives? Just as well, I love surprises! :lol:

How'd you miss this?

http://amiga30.com/

Admittedly a lot of news has gone "unnoticed" on this site, lately.  *sigh*

And yes, totally in the dark!  Gotta see if it (they) work, first!