Use a hard drive caddy and switch out operating systems, such as AROS! (thought I'd throw you a plug Bloodline)
Aye! It's freaky, almost like you can read my mind :-D (or my profile :-P )
My strongest reason for picking AmigaOne is it's coded from the original source code and they have access to the original chipset designs. Although a few people have come out and said, access to the original chipsets is a useless argument, I totally disagree, because, if it's not, how come it's so difficult to emulate AGA on x86s??? Even OCS/ECS.
Hahaha, you make me laugh!!!! THe Chips set is difficult to emulate not for any other reason than timing. You have to make sure the Blitter cycle ends when the CPU is expcting to to end and the Copper will be at the right location when the blitter ends etc...
The actual emulation is easy.
If timing didn't matter you could emulate each chip using a spearate task/thread and then let them run indipendantly as this would be lighting fast, especially on SMP systems, but this wouldn;t work as everything would get out of synch, and fail big style.
No, they do not have access to the original Chipset designs, they have been lost/destroyed/locked away in a Gatway vault. (Note: Gateway own the rights to the Chipset not Amiga Inc.)
Also the original source code is useless, don't take my word for it ask Hyperion if they have actually used the any of the original source code. :-o
