If an EE/Circuit card/programmer designer came up to you at work...

[Hattig]

What we need is a full compatible AGA chipset upgrade like SuperAGA.

I don't think that would make a spare time project!

[Hattig]

Was NatAmi project making any progress on that? I've not been following closely.

Plaz

It doesn't look good, in my opinion.

Still, the FPGAArcade is coming soon, and should be affordable, especially in comparison with the NatAmi.

[Hattig]

+1
A new Sound card for all AMIGAs (inserted on PAULA?): 4 to 128 channels!

I wonder if Paula, or a Paula-derivative, is the best model for a future sound card for classic Amigas?

If it was a good model, and capabilities were easily extended (more channels, higher bitrates, deeper sample depths, etc), then I guess an FPGA would be the best route. Which makes me wonder about a generic FPGA card for the Amiga, one that could be programmed on the fly (by the host Amiga even) to become whatever hardware you wanted it to be, whether that's a 16 channel Paula, or a simple RTG card, or a mixture. I/Os would be an issue - to be a sound card you need audio outputs, to be a video card you need a VGA/HDMI output, to be a USB card you want USB outputs...