I've been doing software for years now and want to try my hand at designing and building some hardware for my Amiga for fun. Specifically, I'd like to look at building an simple A1200 expansion card with a Motoroloa CPU or a GFX chip.
I am pretty familiar with hardware level programming, but have very little experience with microelectronics except for a couple of electronics courses in engineering school of which I have no memory. So, I think I could handle the software side of whatever I create.
Anyway, is it realistic to expect me to gain the needed expertise to design and assemble and something like this in one or two years? Where should I start? I'm sure there is some great software that I can use for design and simulation.
I think it would be great if the community could get togeter and create DIY desigs for some cool amiga hardware, or at least create designs/prototypes that could be use as a basis for a real production run. For example, I'd love to have a 24-bit scan doubler/flicker fixer design right now.
All advice is welcome.
-Bubba
