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Re: If you owned the Amiga trademark, what would you do?
« on: January 05, 2012, 05:35:54 PM »
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I dont know what i would do personally but i'd love to see a nice classic Amiga based motherboard that can be put in a standard ATX case.

The specs i'd like to see would be:

Basic 68030 CPU + AGA Chipset with:
Optional or standard G4 CPU (obviously compliant with OS4)

A socket for a 68040 or 68060 CPU
Can address DDR2/3 Ram as fast ram with sockets
Has built in a Picasso96 compliant graphics card which shares memory
Built in USB and Ethernet ports
Built in Sata
PCI Slots
Maybe a floppy drive port which can use normal 1.44MB PC drives as 1.76mb Amiga

That is pretty much Arcade FPGA =)

68030 + AGA = Pretty much there (actually it is faster than a real one)
DDR2/3 RAM = Not really needed
Picasso96 = I read somewhere that it will eventually be included in FPGA (correct me if wrong)
USB + Network = Yes, on the addon expansion
Sata = Not needed (but if you really must, you can use a SATA HDD connected to the USB
PCI Slots = not so far
Floppy drive = no, but you can use .adf files
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Re: If you owned the Amiga trademark, what would you do?
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2012, 05:48:08 PM »
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I looked up their website and cant find much about the Amiga, just stupid rubbish like the crappy Vic20, Philips Videopac etc...

Heh you are looking at the wrong place. The site is very old.

If you want to know about Arcade FPGA, check out its thread. You remember when you saw Minimig running at my place? That was the equivalent of an A500. A.FPGA is the equivalent of an A1200 with a decent CPU + Indivision (DVI). And you get much more than that with the expansion board.... for 200 euro.

Dougal, the problem is that there is no way reruns of old Amigas exactly like they were (or improved upon) using the same type of custom chips and technology can be done for a variety of reasons. The main one is that the blueprints have been lost for ever. The next best thing is through FPGA. THis is happening right now, and costs much less than the real thing.
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Re: If you owned the Amiga trademark, what would you do?
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2012, 06:02:35 PM »
While I have nothing against Amiga OS 4, I don't see the point of using an OS if there isn't software for it. If I had incredible amount of money to blow, instead of spending it to create a machine no one can afford (ahem) I would port OS4 to arm and make sure that the OS is supported by software people can actually use.
 

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Re: If you owned the Amiga trademark, what would you do?
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2012, 06:30:37 PM »
@Dougal

If I remember well, Darrin said (he has an arcade FPGA) that currently SysInfo says that he has a 68020 @ 100mhz speed. This will increase significantly wiht the next build of the core (the software that is).

I am on the list to get an Arcade FPGA, and hopefully I will get it soon. If you want we can meet up and compare games running on an Amiga and FPGA side by side...  thats the ultimate test =)
 

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Re: If you owned the Amiga trademark, what would you do?
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2012, 07:43:45 PM »
I just tried AmiKit with OS3.9 + Magellan on WinUAE. It is REALLY REALLY fast, probably runs round in circles any currently available OS4 machine. While I wouldn't use it in real life, it is very good in giving you an idea how an Amiga could look and feel like today.
 

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Re: If you owned the Amiga trademark, what would you do?
« Reply #5 on: January 06, 2012, 05:57:50 AM »
Exactly. Software availability is what breaks or makes a system. Look at Linux, many people won't touch it because there isn't Photoshop on it. Now I am not saying that someone should port Photoshop over to Amiga OS, but with the complete lack of decent productivity software for it, it will remain forever a hobbyist OS (not that there is anything wrong with that).