A lot of negativity here. Some people miss that many technological advances and some commercial successes started out as an idea, a crazy notion, or a fanatical hobby. While NatAmi may not be a way to compete in today's market, we should not and cannot discount that it may spawn other ideas or advanced methods which develop into better products.
A long time ago at a C64 swap party I mentioned that I wanted to hack together a real 6551 and support software and give the C64 the ability to communicate faster than 2400 baud. I was dissuaded by all in the group because "the disk drive won't even run that fast." A few years later CMD introduced the SwiftLink-232.
I should have done it, anyway. And though it looks as if they do not really need it, I give that advice and encouragement to the NatAmi team.
And to the guy who mentioned self-modifying code, that is a good idea and all for old-timer programming (like 6502 hacking, demo stuff, etc.,) but in the modern world it is a massive security risk. Apparently modern programmers and hardware architects have a pretty good grasp on that, now they just need to find a reliable way to prevent stack and heap corruption from pwning b0xen.
