More info on 'Amiga Reloaded'

[Lurch]

Had me until:

"The Amiga Reloaded will not have any CPU. We know that there are many flavours of Amiga fans out there, and each of them defines "Amiga" with their own standards. While some of you will primarily use less CPU-demanding programs, others want the highest possible performance. This means that no matter what type of CPU we would choose, it would be the wrong choice for many customers. We therefore let the customer make the decision: Amiga Reloaded has an A1200-compatible CPU slot where a CPU card must be installed to operate the board. Compatibility of A1200 accelerator boards will be the same as with the ACA500: We will guarantee that our ACA12xx cards work (except for the old ACA1230 type), and we'll also do our best to make the popular Blizzard cards work. However, there will be no product support for operation with non-iComp branded CPU cards.

The choice of no CPU on the mainboard has two main advantages: For one, you don't have to pay for a CPU that you don't use anyway. Second, it gives you the possibility to build a very low-cost Amiga with the forthcoming ACA1221(EC) cards. "

Also what about Mediators etc, it also appears you need to buy another Indivision to work with the new board.

Subway USB no clock port??

Why not increase the chip RAM to 8MB as we all know that this is possible, anyway not looking good.

Really after something I can replace my poor A1200 motherboard with.

[Lurch]

It's not the fact it wont come with a CPU but it limits what cards I can connect to it. So I can't use my Apollo 060.

Also dislike the fact my mediator may not work with it, some mention about that would be nice.

Anyway, if he must tinker 8MB chip should be on the list.

[Lurch]

The limitation is in Alice. It might just be lack of support in the chip, but I've never bothered to look whether the pin out would support >2mb. It's a dram interface so row and column addresses are multiplexed, it's not as simple as counting address bits. Bearing in mind the a4000 2mb/8mb chip jumper, it's possible that if you could obtain an Alice that supported 8mb it would drop in to the design. It might need different ram though.
 
 It's possible but unlikely that Alice would support 8mb but the motherboard and ram that commodore supplied was unsuitable. I'm not holding out any hope that anyone would find out how to make that work, even if it did exist.
 
 The only way to fix it would be with an FPGA and then you might as well buy a mist or arcadefpga.

Just need to look at how DraCo did it :-)