More info on 'Amiga Reloaded'

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Linky no work.  

Edit:  here you go.    wiki.icomp.de/wiki/Amiga_reloaded

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Had me until:  (snip)

Ha, I thought that was one of the best perks!  One of my issues with the ACA500 (besides that it's an ugly external thing), was that it came with a wimpy processor that needs to be augmented with an extra accelerator to be of any use.  Why bother?  I like that a user can "add his own CPU" now.  To each their own, I suppose!  

I like stories, I wonder how Jens came across the motherload of old C= era AGA chips?

Video output sounds very modular.  Wonder if somewhere down the line someone will develop additional options?  Hummm...  

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Per recent discussions, the Flash ROM option means Amigakit will not carry/sell this item.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Which means it might also work with a Blizzard PPC.  As if those danged cards don't already fetch a pretty penny.  

Too bad it won't work with all those "FPU + RAM only" cards floating around, haha.  :insane:

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

@Rob
That is because you see it as pay extra... why do you have to pay extra for the included TrueIDE CF solution instead of a cheap IDE port where I can use my old harddrive and optical drive.

OMG you guys.  With that logic, why include anything?  What if I want to buy just a bare motherboard without the Alice and Lisa and Paula chips, can I do that and use my own?  How about "can I buy it with no keyboard header to save .05 cents, and solder my own on?"

I facepalm so hard at this forum, sometimes.  :angry:

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Lol, USB and RJ45 (Ethernet) ports aren't going anywhere or changing to the point where they won't be backwards compatible.

Both should have been included on this board, and had they been, I probably would have ended up buying one.

You know if they had been, somebody would complain about "why do I have to pay extra for something I'm not going to use", blah blah yadda yadda.

You can please all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you can't please all the people all the time!