What Amiga product do *YOU* would want. Please read.

[Plaz]

My 2 cents worth.....

Here is a list of items I need to make my trusty 2000/3000 and 4000 productive again. Number one being the most important, and down to the least.

1. Affordable network cards. I can't buy 10 meg cards at 100+us$ per card for 3-4 machines. I need a reasonable 100meg card for some thing less than $50us
2. New Accelerator Cards. PPC is fine but maybe that new coldfire project would be an economical choice too. I don't see the need to put in an intel in a classic to run UAE. I can do that on any pc clone. Maybe a coldfire version of OS4 could be released.
3. New keyboards to replace the crummy original commodore ones, again that don't cost a fortune.
4. Graphics upgrade. An ATI card on Zorro III or an IDE expansion bus would be nice.
5. Sound. My old AD516 cards are still great, but I could stand an update to the DAC features for recording and special effects.

In honesty, I don't think you can make much on any of these projects. With A1 and pegasos boards becoming more available, you would have to come in with a really decent price for me to concider diverting funds from and A1 to my classics.  But if you could, I would definitly buy at the right price.
Good luck!

Plaz

[Plaz]

@L8Knight

I've actually had a design for one sitting on the shelf for years.  (video card)
Hey Red, think there'd be enough of a market for this?

I'd love new video for my 3000 and 2000. Make it cheap and they will come :-)

Plaz

[Plaz]

@DaNi

motorola Coldfire... is 68k familiar and currently the speed is 220Mhz and 333Mhz (610 mips) and up to 800Mhz (1400 mips!!!!) with superscalar EMAC MMU Coldfires planned

I agree coldfire needs more attention for the classics. And up to 800mhz?! cool. Hyperion/AI could compile a version of OS4 to match I'm sure.

Plaz

[Plaz]

@takemehomegrandma

Aren't you guys really thinking slightly in terms of a Pegasos with a 68060 instead of a PPC? So a 060 card for the pegasos would be the product you want? That would of course limit you to the old Amiga3.x OS's forever

I'm thinking of a 300+mhz coldfire with it's own version of OS4 actually. :-) More classic owners should take a look at the Amiga Cold Fire Project page.

Plaz