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Offline Madshib

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That's kind of a shame. I understand that the Amiga is a "classic" system, but it never stopped exciting me to imagine what was next. I applaud those that have made "next gen" systems and os porting efforts, but I really would still like to see the next piece of the puzzle.

The vision that many had in the mid nineties, was powerpc. Let's go back there for a minute. Maybe powerpc was the next step, but what of the remaining architecture? Would Hombre have been the best of ECS/AGA with elements of S3 or Cirrus chips? All that graphical power with backward compatibility...

Paula on steroids with DSP? Sweet also...

And what of the OS capabilities built in around these functions?

All this with a shiny new AOS atop fully realizing the multimedia precipice it could have been on.

In the present, I suppose there are many reasons why anyone wouldn't want to undertake an FPGA project that would bring the Amiga to the next level(Classic this and newer machines that)....but I know there is one reason why I would love to see the true A5000/whatever. ;) It would kick a$$