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Re: OK... why no new 68K boards?
« on: February 10, 2009, 03:00:36 PM »
Something I've been thinking about for a while....

1. Real Amiga hardware is breaking down.
2. Many don't want to use Amiga emulation because emulation does not "feel right" due to the fact that custom chip funtctions aren't documented, only reverse engineered.
3. Then perhaps someone can produce an unpopulated PCI card where the user could insert a real PAUL, AGNES, DENISE, KICKSTART, etc. (from a dead Amiga).
4. The emulator (UAE) could recognise and use these real Amiga custom chips on the PCI card.  It would only have to emulate the CPU and other address things (or heck - one could even put a real 68000 CPU on the card as an option).

This has been done to an extent with the C64 SID chip PCI cards.
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