Any news on future release of OS4 netbook or on Natami?

[ChaosLord]

Ahh, "the cloud," that magical invention of magic wherein your data ascends to a higher plane of existence, free from the toil and suffering of this physical world, to a Gnostic sort of heaven where it is freed from the corruption of the flesh forever and exists in a transcendent state of Pure Mind. Come one, come all, to the Temple of the Cloud, to speak with your data through the Spirit Links!

You are an excellent writer.

Thank you for mocking the Tablet Lemmings and Cloud Lemmings for me so that I don't have to.

[ChaosLord]

@ matthey:

Thanks.  That sounds awfully close to what the FPGA Arcade is going to give us with the daughterboard expansion.  I'll be interested to see what (if any) expansion slots might be included in the design.

All 5 Natami MX boards produced to date have 512MB RAM and Ethernet 1000 soldered on.  That is significantly beyond what FPGA Arcade is promising us with the daughterboard expansion.

I wish both projects the best of luck.  And I am planning to buy both when/if they become fully available.

My only complaint about FPGA Arcade that keeps me wanting a Natami so badly is they are starving my poor widdul miggy of all her RAM.  All Amiga software can easily address a 4GB memory address space which is about 3GB of useable RAM, (the rest is reserved for registers, expansion cards, etc).  But nobody will build us any hardware to actually use that much ram.

[ChaosLord]

So what is "S-Zorro" on that diagram, anyway?

It is used exclusively by the SuperDuper(tm) 060 CPU Card + Static Ram.

Is there actually a Zorro bus controller that one could theoretically hook a backplane to?

Nope.  But PCI is your friend

[ChaosLord]

-built in scan doubler/deinterlacer and DVI port

Natami has no deinterlacer.

Claudio could maybe sneak a deinterlacer into the system but the last I checked he was too mad at Gunnar (as are many others) to actually put in the hours of work it would take to get it in.  So basically you can forget about it.

On Natami if you want a noninterlaced screen then your program must actually open a noninterlaced screen such as any normal 31.5 Khz mode.

[ChaosLord]

Not that I could imagine using that much memory on a 68k machine.

I think 7zip can use 2GB all by itself.
So can any modern web browser.

 I don't think TCL can use than much memory even if he buffers everything in Total Chaos .

The standard battlecry of the gamecoder is "MOAR RAMZ!!!"