NATAMI status?

[alexh]

They were supposed to release their first board in June 2008

[alexh]

You've gotta wonder what is going on. NatAmi is supposed to be a 68k Amiga clone with extensions. They have an open source program already written in the form of WinUAE and rather than taking it, adding SuperAGA functions and producing something for the community they write their own simulator which is not Amiga compatible??

Something smells fishy!

Combine that with the total technical drivel on their forums and you've gotta wonder WTF?

[alexh]

SamuraiCrow wrote:
As for the 3d drivel and simulator being Windows-based, I suspect that it would have been too slow if they emulated the CPU at the same time.

Yeah right.. You ever seen the N64 emulators or Dreamcast emulators?

SamuraiCrow wrote:
Likewise, I think their design is adding AGA compatibility to a PC-style graphics chipset rather than the other way around.

That is not how they said SuperAGA started when NatAMI was first announced.

You've gotta face facts that the key developer never really gets involved in the forum (which is perhaps good) but those that do know a little bit about engineering and just go off on mad ideas. The 070 CPU and PCIe for example. Neither practical for todays or probably even tomorrows FPGA technology but they still spend ages droning on about how cool it would be etc. I want 16x lane PCIe... no I want PCIe 2.0 5GHZ!

[alexh]

Check.

3DCore simulator... does it have any roots in the hardware? i.e. is it REALLY simulating hardware registers, clocks, pipelines, RAM buffers etc. ?

Or (more likely) is it just a SW renderer experimenting with little more than algorithms? (perhaps ones which may or may not be possible to easily turned into hardware)

[alexh]

Something is still a little fishy. So Thomas is too busy to take pictures, which I can understand cos he probably wonders "whats all the fuss is about? Now *go away* before I throw something at you!!"

But there are soooo many "hangers on" in that project who would just love to take pictures and movies and show what everything is about.... and it isnt happening... which is strange.