What if ?

[AJCopland]

Original A1200 should have shipped with 68030, 68882 and at least 4mb ram onboard.

But why oh why did no-one make a Voodoo based trapdoor accelerator for it as soon as it was released? It would have made it just slightly faster than the PS1 :-(

[AJCopland]

Hmm the question was what would i want in it "today".

I'd have to say something like Oli_hd's Coldfire accelerator, and a PPC with gfx accelerator. Integrated ethernet and USB would be awesome.

I am of course thinking along these lines due to the MiniMig, NatAmi and Clone-A projects :-D

[AJCopland]

Ah well i was thinking more of some of the all-in-one graphics solutions that existed for the Voodoo accelerator rather than relying on pass-through cables etc :-D

Still the point stands that with just a small cost increase to the initia,machine, and post-purchase gfx accelerator we could have had machines that were quite capable at the time. cest la vie.

Maybe we can cram some of these goodies into the MiniMig when we get the chance :insane:

[AJCopland]

If we're talking about what we'd like to see added/altered in the amiga chipset should it be released now, then i'd think that a handheld device would be a pretty good target.

Or to put it another way. The GP2x only runs at 200Mhz, and the PSP is clock limited in software to 222MHz. So a 220Mhz Coldfire CPU and an upgraded AGA chipset + 3d hardware and you'dmhavea  great little portable gaming system.

It doesnt have to be powerful 3d hardware either. The PSPs gpu is utterly woeful, it doesn't even support multi-texturing, urgh.

No just add better chunky support as Dennis was saying he'd like to do to the MiniMig, a low-power portable gpu and a ColdFire CPU and there'd be a really desirable portable machine with all my favourite games on it... ah *off-in-fairytale-land*

Andy