AGA Question

[dougal]

Sorry to bring up this old thread again.

I'm sure it is not impossible for somebody to create some sort of AGA emulation for ECS machines with say an RTG and a powerful processor like a 50Mhz '030 or an '040.

Maybe it could be in the form of a hacked WhdLoad or some sort of patcher program.

RTG cards are much much faster then AGA and offer up to 16.7 million colors at much higher resolutions as opposed to the 256 colors that AGA can offer. That coupled with a decent CPU and some fastram and i can't see why it would be doable.

Its a bummer having an RTG with its fast blitter (super fast compared to AGA), much more colors and higher resolutions but then being limited to ECS games & demos.

Look at SimCity 2000 as an example. The Amiga version will run on an unexpanded A1200 with 2MB chipram but it won't run on say an A3000 with a 68060 processor and Picasso IV.

[dougal]

@Piru

I guess that puts the myth to rest then. The only way for AGA is with a 1200/4000/CD32 or Winuae.

[dougal]

Just as much as how WhichAmiga reports that the graphics chipset is OCS or ECS or AGA or P96, instead of software emulation is it possible to have AGA on say a Zorro card just as you would have P96?

Imagine a RTG card but instead of P96 or whatever it would be AGA or both.

I'm not suggesting it is possible to make, or easy, or financially viable but i'm just curious.