What Amiga product do *YOU* would want. Please read.

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Red, you have Three options;

1. Develop a new OS for our 68K based Amiga's, with new features and bug fixes... Might I suggest using an open source Amiga like OS as the basis of this...

2. Make keyboards identical in every way to the A4000's keyboard except they are USB compatible (and should come with a PS/2 adaptor), this could be used with USB capible A1200 tower conversions, Pegs/A1's and PC's...

3. Talk to Dammy about his "Plans" ;-)


The choice is yours :-D

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PMC wrote:
I'd love to see a Coldfire based accelerator card become available, or failing that I liked the idea of an x86 running 68040 emulation.  

I'd also like to see a better and more elegant solution for integrating native Amiga graphics modes and RTG.  I'm fed up with swapping cables and having to make room for two monitors on my desk.  

If you are concidering an Acelerator for the classic line... I would urge you to be thinking Cheap x86 board (1.8Ghz Durons are something like $30 now!) with DDR ram. Then you could have a 68k emulator on a small flash rom.

One could run a x86 version of AROS on this board with an integrated 68k emu and it would then offer the same type of system as OS4 and MOS.

If you are thinking about Gfx/sound cards, then choosing a cheap VGA chip and AC97 chip and an AGA Emulation FPGA and then building an VGA/AGA hybrid card would be nice :-)

One where The FPGA emualtes the AGA functions and promotes them to the VGA chip (and the 16bit Audio chip), while allowing the Native features of the modern Gfx and audio as well. :-)

But at the end of the day, I think my Keyboard idea is still the best...

(Imagine one of these with a USB connector plugged into your PC/A1/PEG :-D )

How about also selling A4KT boxes (ATX compatible), and I mean propper Commdore ones (NOT the tacky Escom A4KT ones).

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Some nice ideas there, is it that simple to get a 68k emulator running off a ROM like that? That hybrid Gfx Card sounds interesting!


 

For the x86 CPU expansion there would be no more problems than a PPC CPU expansion but it would be a lot cheaper (from a design and component point of view). And There is a GPL 68K JIT for the x86 already used in UAE :-D

As for the AGA/VGA hybrid card.. that could be more of a problem, since the AGA Chipset is very fussy about timing... But since the AGA modes would simply be promoted to a VGA (Trucolour) screen and the Sprites/HAM/blitter/copper effects could all be emulated and also promoted to the VGA screen too. The VGA chips registers would be available to the host system too, so that the software could use it as both an RTG card and  Native chipset.
The Same applies to some onboard Audio solution.