Why no FPGA accelerator cards?

[Crom00]

Yep that'd be great...

[Crom00]

I think we Amigans suffer from analasys paralasys... it will take one pioneering individual to make an FPGA CPU card. When that happens the maker of the card will discover that even though there are better solutions out there the FPGA fills a need that many ignore...

There is no standard Next Gen Amiga that offers 100% backwards offical compatibility from a stable manufacturer. Until then we want to hang onto what we have and run our classic apps....

When someone gets their act together and makes a good cost effective solution Amiga users will jump on it, until then we poder about FPGA cpu cards for wedge shaped Amigas.

Think back to before MiniMIG many folks said it was impossible/not cost effective/ to reverse engineer an AMIGA into an FPGA. Dennis proved not only is it possible but a sell-able product.

[Crom00]

How about a low cost ARM cpu board that runs an emulation layer of somekind? I figure the ARM is a good route because the CPU is so wideley used and thereI figure it's all well documented.

As for not possible comments... projects like this are done all the time look at any TV game develoment or throw MP4 players with full 24 bit dispalys in the palm of your hand...

So the Amiga had SOME custom silicon... and thus  that makes it so unique and un-doable...? plz... the biggest drawback seems to be the current IP holder.

Cool that the Amiga Iphone App is coming out. Hope they give full support instead of a game player. I'm sure they will block WB disks from booting.