It looks as if you have been doing the same internet browsing as me recently!
I was very interested in your ideas about creating a new 'classic amiga'. Sorry I haven't read all 6 pages of it, and while I agree the community needs something special going back to the days of AA/AAA isn't practical for all the reasons mensioned in that post.
But what was REALLY special about Amiga and why it still has a following today is that it did so much with so little. Efficient design of the O/S and of the Hardware. The two worked in unison to create the amiga experience.
Part of that was down to developers knowing they had a firm specification to build for. (I know hitting the hardware is frowned on these days but that's what made so good (Insidentally that's why I think so many people are against the AmigaDE ideals, an "abstraction layer, no I want to program the chips dirrectly.") Back onto subject ...sort of)...
That's why console games can (just about) keep up with the more powerful PC hardware configs; a firm base line on which to work to, a minimum spec. That's why a like the Game Boy Advance, it does a lot with the minimal hardware it has. PowerVR has a similar sort of idealogy (ahhh the point at last!)
What would be great is a new Amiga based on a PDA version of the PowerVR. I've been 'researching' the idea of a pda Amiga; running UAE on a established PDA. Using a Dragonball CPU which is based on a 68000 anyway. But the custom chips are too hard to emulate and it would require alot more than a 66MHz (Currently the fastest 68k based Dragonball) to emulate OCS let alone AGA.
So the solution is to add Custom hardware. I toyed with the idea of a CF/SD device but bandwidths are surely too low.
So what about a new start, a custom(ish) PowerVR 3D chip making a 3D 'Amigaboy'. Now that would embody the Amiga ideals of design efficency, and give us a new classic to be prowd of.
This is not as far fetched as it all seems, I'll post some html links when I find them again. Technology is moving in this direction time to stop looking at the past and embrace the future. I'd buy one...probably.
