Has anybody thought about using the Raspberry Pi as an Amiga 500 accelerator/expansion board?
I think this could be used but with the board designed to plug directly into the 68k socket and running a 68k emulator on the Pi https://www.raspberrypi.org/products/compute-module-development-kit/
You could use the other features on the board such as Video output for RTG
I'm not an electrical engineer or programmer so it's out of my league
The thought has struck me - the problem is that I doubt the Pi would be able to boot fast enough to actually be a usable system as a proper emulator.
The easy way would be to build an interface from the Amiga to something like a Zero, and then write an API on the Pi for running computing tasks for the Amiga.
That way, you could write datatypes, libraries and such, which would then connect to the Pi, run the code and return the result.
On the other hand, I doubt that it would be worth the effort - there is only so much to gain from such a setup.
