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Re: Amiga Card PPC developing
« on: May 03, 2008, 04:35:20 PM »
I read a good chunk of this thread, but not particularly thoroughly, so I appologize if these questions are answered somewhere within it. Firstly, what exactly is the point of this "product" ? OS4 is a no-no as there would be no license. Also Im not sure wos (another contributing factor to lack of OS4 for classics) or pup are doable either in regards to new amiga ppc cards, although theyre probably a little more likely than the alternatives. MOS also seems off limits due to the fact that pup seems unlikely. Near as I can tell the best these cards could offer is yet *another* split, with a new ppc based systems for classic amigas/os3.x. I really dont see the point. Again, sorry if Ive missed something, but unless I did it appears to be just another of the increasingly common fantasy scenarios (which I admit I do understand why they appear).
In my opinion (and thats all it is) some sort of 68k card seems more practical (and doable) for classics for now. Maybe with onboard gfx and sound. 68030 or '040 based with some sort of sdram slot or 2. Some sort of modest little upgrade that wouldnt cost the earth that would make nice additions to a whdload machine, or whatever uses classics  still have for people. I didnt really give this idea a great deal of thought, but something to this effect seems a better idea to me (and actually useful, as there's no license, etc. required for os3.x hardware and it could also be useful for an eventual AROS port to 680x0).

Anyway, just a few of my thoughts, reject or not, I dont care too much  :-)
Near as I can tell this is where I write something under the guise of being innocuous, but really its a pot shot at another persons/peoples choice of Amiga based systems. Unfortunately only I cant see how transparent and petty it makes me look.