Some food for thought

[koaftder]

Gulliver wrote:
On the Amiga platform we have managed to replace nearly every subsystem, update them andenhance them:

Processor -> we made accelerators
ram -> we made ram expansions
graphics chipset -> we made GFX cards
paula audio -> we made sound cards
serial, parallel, keyboard, joystick and mouse expansions -> we made USB adapters & IO xtenders
kickstart ->we made autobooting flash kickstarts
zorro expansion -> we made busboard adapters
IDE/SCSI -> we made faster compatible ide and scsi devices

So what do we need to accomplish the dump of our stock Amigas at this point?
It seems at this stage our amigas are like a very old dongle!
I wish it was possible to create a minimal cost, lets say, a semi-dumb, i guess zorro II busboard, in which we could just plug in all those subsystem cards and run workbench without a real Amiga. Of course we wont have AGA/ECS/OCS, but we could rely on Retargetable systems much like the Macrosystem´s Draco, once did.
In the end, is it too complicated to build such board? I mean what would be the minimum requirements be?
I think we will probably need to patch kickstart code to do it, but then it doesnt sound like a pipe dream.

Or you could just buy a pc.

[koaftder]

A1260 wrote:
i think someone should turn the table around.... amiga on a pci card. where the amiga pci card utilize the power of the new pc's... thats the way to go!

Or you could just use uae.

[koaftder]

An amiga on a pci card would be cool as hell, no amiga geek could diss that. I think that UAE would probably give you some advantage in the compatibility department though, and it is faster than any amiga ever was.