GP2X Breakout box............ AMiga INc..are you watching???

[Louis Dias]

I proposed the same thing for a Gamecube but nobody thought it could be done cheaply.  The GC's parallel port can move data at 81MB/s.  I wouldn't complain about a 487.5Mhz PPC Amiga with 40MB of RAM for about $150 total.

[Louis Dias]

motorollin wrote:
@lou_dias
IIRC, you posted questioning the possibility of porting OS4 to the GameCube. I don't think that's what Leirbag is suggesting. He is just saying that this kind of portable multimedia machine is what Amiga could have been today.

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moto

Well if you read the last 15 pages of my thread, I pretty much had given up on OS4 and was more into a more personal and portable platform based on AROS.  A device such as this for a console guarrantees highly available hardware.  As for storage, USB flash and SD cards are the future.

Imagine carrying around a "LIVE" disc for your console port of choice and an SD card for storage and settings.  An indash LCD hooked up to a Wii (which is the size of a 1 din car stereo) makes it an auto-OS as well.  Now that's mobile...auto-mobile.   :-D

[Louis Dias]

motorollin wrote:
@lou_dias
Sorry, I didn't read the whole thread. With the correct SDK, there's absolutely no reason why AROS couldn't be ported to the GP2X, or, indeed, the GameCube. A live AROS disc for a console would be cool, though unfortunately most (all?) consoles will not boot a DVD/CD-R unless they are modified.

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moto

It costs a $15 chip and a tweak of a variable resistor to get the GC to read DVDr discs...