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Re: MiniMig + PowerPC = OS4 Hardware for all
« on: October 26, 2007, 06:05:54 PM »
...... but there is no way you could BUY an A1 version of OS4 .....



..... mind you same might also turn out true for the "classic" versioon  :roll:
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Re: MiniMig + PowerPC = OS4 Hardware for all
« Reply #1 on: October 27, 2007, 05:41:32 PM »
Yep, the rejected the idea of sending Jens a free board (no suprise after all the Geneis-bashing and blackmailing we've seen from jens in the past years), they have course done nothing that would stop the idea to be made a reality.

Jens is free to just buy an Efika at Vesalia, and go from there on ....

Mind you I still think it'd be rather stupid way of solving the symptons instead of curing the cause, but thats just me   ;-)
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Re: MiniMig + PowerPC = OS4 Hardware for all
« Reply #2 on: October 27, 2007, 08:31:22 PM »
(E)UAE isn't designed to take real Amiga-chips, otherwise such a version would have been available for Amigas (with 060 or PPC). Changing that would require a major overhaul, and wether such a version would be more compatible than the normal SW-only version is more than questionable.

Putting such a card into an EFIKA is even more pointless, as it can take only 1 PCI card, and an Amiga without GFX-card doesn't really cut anymore (ask anone who is running a BPPC without one).

An Minimig/Clone-A in a joystick may be fun, one with fast 68k might be a nice tinkering toy, one with GFX-card AND AGA might even proove usefull to some, but an PPC-Amiga with just AGA is a pain in the a...
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Re: MiniMig + PowerPC = OS4 Hardware for all
« Reply #3 on: October 27, 2007, 10:50:34 PM »
@Andrew Bell

What isn't posible (you somewhat lost me here)....

But please understand that VirtualPC and MOL run SW designed to run on varying HW, while most AGA-SW (games that is) don't just expect the chipset to be at one fixed address, no they alos often make some very direct assumption on the timing between CPU and chipset, something that is easier to emulate when both parts are done in one piece of compared to one being SW, and the other being emulated-pseudo-HW.

Oh, and would you please name one piece of SW that demands both PPC AND AGA ?
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Re: MiniMig + PowerPC = OS4 Hardware for all
« Reply #4 on: October 27, 2007, 11:21:13 PM »
Propraly the same that require PPC and AGA ??  :crazy:
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Re: MiniMig + PowerPC = OS4 Hardware for all
« Reply #5 on: October 28, 2007, 07:57:20 AM »
Doh, and there I was thinking I made my point clear enough....

A combination of a PPC with an Amiga-chipset(OCS,ECS,AGA even if it was AAA) but without a semi-modern GFX-card is pointless, as there is absolutly no SW that would demand such an setup.
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Re: MiniMig + PowerPC = OS4 Hardware for all
« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2007, 03:42:57 PM »
@HenyCase

Don't know, what it is with you and the PPC-developer-board, but there were probraly only a dozen or so ever made, and I know of only 2 in the hands of community memebers.

The Blizzard2060 is also in short supply ( :cry: why oh why did I sell mine  :cry: ), so thats a no go.

@Skyraker

Bringing the Blizzard2604 to market (if it was ever finished that is) is just as "easy" as bringing back the CS-PPC and BPPC ..... you know, non-ROHS compatible out-of-production components to be mounted in very expensive production-methods
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