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Re: Clone-A demonstration successful, new Catweasel drivers,
« on: April 03, 2007, 05:44:33 AM »
That is WONDERFUL! Now let's hope that these chips don't just end up in some stupid Amiga in a joystick thing! :)

Were they working on the AAA chipset as well, or am I wrong here?
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Re: Clone-A demonstration successful, new Catweasel drivers,
« Reply #1 on: April 03, 2007, 07:03:06 PM »
Let me clarify.

I hope they don't stop at the Amiga in a Joystick thing if it should come to that. Aside of having a cheap portable 040 Amiga type device, I'm sure this could also be used as a PCI card for Amiga and MorphOS machines to somehow enhance backwards compatability so that old software is not mere handled by software emulation.


 As for an Amiga in a Joystick giving hope for the future of an Amiga clone...

...well the C64 went pretty much the same route and we didn't see a C64 clone follow up to that unfortunatly. :/

 I had also heard a rumour that these chips "might" be opened sourced instead of commercialized, which I think could be the best move for the community as a whole, though I would not blame or hold it against anyone if the chips were instead put into commercial efforts, so long as those efforts did not result in like I said a mere Joystick for your 6 year old, or even a mere 500 clone. I'd like to see a clone with at least a 50Mhz 030 at worst!
 I don't see why that would be so expensive, shouldn't the 030 technology have about the worth of a 486 CPU anymore!?!? You'd think a piece of hardware like that would be worth pocket change.

040's are on Ebay for $10 so you'd figure....


http://cgi.ebay.com/Motorola-68040-Processor-XC68LC040RC25B_W0QQitemZ230096390151QQcategoryZ164QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

Or even imagine this chip set merged into an Efika type board or something...
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Re: Clone-A demonstration successful, new Catweasel drivers,
« Reply #2 on: April 03, 2007, 07:20:43 PM »
Ok, ya a Joystick type deal (it better be a CD32 or better type joystick, not one of those 2600 POS') with a memory card reader and USB ports...

...that would be awsome, even if it did only have a crappy 68000 in it.
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Re: Clone-A demonstration successful, new Catweasel drivers,
« Reply #3 on: April 03, 2007, 07:56:37 PM »
Well I know at least in the case of the 1200, you can use standard PC power packs with little hacking involved. Granted that still does not solve the problem of a dead or dying Mobo.

 Another thought I was having is that with custom hardware is that we should not have need for these over priced accelerator boards anymore right?
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Re: Clone-A demonstration successful, new Catweasel drivers,
« Reply #4 on: April 03, 2007, 11:01:02 PM »
Yes, if that was not Vapor, I'd be thinking about those possabilities too! That coldfire had me excited for so long... :/

 As for expensive accellerator boards. I was thinking, since they are designing the chips, and hopefully some day motherboards to put them on, I would figure they could design the new boards so that you can just drop a chip on it, as opposed to having to buy some expensive expansion board you know?

 But I don't know how all that stuff works, I don't understand why a 68xxx board could not work like a standard PC board where you just change jumpers or something in the bios to adapt for the new CPU.
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Re: Clone-A demonstration successful, new Catweasel drivers,
« Reply #5 on: April 04, 2007, 03:47:20 AM »
Me gives Schoenfeld a BIG smooshy HUGG!

We are talking possabilities here my friend. What's up with the Amiga community turning into a bunch of flamers anyhow?

 Oh well, another BIG HUGG for you sir!
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Re: Clone-A demonstration successful, new Catweasel drivers,
« Reply #6 on: April 04, 2007, 01:44:18 PM »
Aghhh, I understand the CPU situtation a little better now. Bummer.
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Re: Clone-A demonstration successful, new Catweasel drivers,
« Reply #7 on: April 06, 2007, 05:17:02 AM »
My beef with UAE is that the only advanced and useful port (beyond classic gaming) is for Winblows ONLY, and as we all know, when you run ANYTHING on Winblows, you loose that Fluid experience that you get with WorkBench and BeOS.
It reminds me of what life would bave been like had Amiga used Celeron's as CPU's! :)
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Re: Clone-A demonstration successful, new Catweasel drivers,
« Reply #8 on: April 07, 2007, 01:21:43 PM »
Too bad Amithlon isn't supported anymore. :/

Another great idea, ripped from the hands of the community by Amiga's new owners. Again this shows how much Love they have for us.
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