MiniMig: One Random CRAZY Thought.

[koaftder]

freqmax wrote:

little wrote:
emulator on a card, you can already do that in software, why do you need a PCI card also?

Software emulators will in most cases not be upto the latency requirements of the original. Also synchronisation may be lost. Parallel operations are possible with hardware in a whole another way.

It doesn't matter anyway because reimplemented hardware isn't any better than software emulation, it's not the original equipment so it's a moot point.

[koaftder]

You could use your:

Modern OS of choice + Amiga compatibility running alongside/inside

We already have that, its called UAE.

[koaftder]

freqmax wrote:
I think what's sought after by the OP is essentially an Amiga graphics card that can be used on modern hardware. There is already a project that may be altered for that purpose:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Graphics_Project

It even got 2x DVI :-)

@jkonstan:
I guess I was looking for thumb rules. Most Minimig boards will be 2-layer at most.

Oh man, what a waste of time. gfx cards are soooo cheap these days, whats the point? And AMD is making all the radeon specs OS anyway. Why, oh why, reinvent the 10 dollar wheel?

[koaftder]

EDanaII wrote:
@ freqmax

freqmax wrote:
I think what's sought after by the OP is essentially an Amiga graphics card that can be used on modern hardware. There is already a project that may be altered for that purpose:
Open Graphics Project

Yep, that's essentially what I'm arguing.

Nice link, BTW, I had no idea such a project existed, but I'm not surprised either. :-)

Ed.

I don't see how having an expansion card that offloads some of the horse power of generating video has an advantage over just doing a software only solution in this case. With either software or hardware, the end goal is to replicate the graphics functionality of the amiga. It doesn't matter if the functionality is hardware or software, the result is the same. In over a decade of evolutionary advances in software emulation we still don't have perfect emulation. The latest hardware emulation, the minimig, is not a perfect emulation of the a500.

I just don't see the advantage of an imperfect and expensive hardware emulation of graphics over an imperfect and free software emulation of graphics...

Hardware solutions make most sense when what you are trying to accomplish is impossible or prohibitively expensive in software.