More Chipram

[recidivist]

 People have got to face the fact that the Amiga hardware design was great in its time but much better is available now. Wishing  for more chipram is understandable but as realistic as wanting automatic transmission, air conditioning,  and power steering in a Ford Model T:it could be done,but it won't be authenic.

 To my mind,the reason Amiga were so great is that the design interfaced very well with the TV standards of the time and was ahead of the pack in OS elegance and graphics.

 Barring the resurrection of AAA chips plus improvements the future is going to be Amiga OS running on "standard" hardware already widely produced .

 It would be interesting to know if more Amiga Forever on Windows OR classic Amigas are being used today.

 Personally I'd love to see one of those Chinese factories churn out a few million Retro+ A1200s only with built-in CD/DVD drive(skip the built-in floppy),HD loaded with a sampling of the fun games and productivity software,50(or higher)mhz '030(highest compatibility) or better and 128 or more ram running OS3.9 or 4.Sell 'em for $199 and they'd fly off the shelves. They have already made retro game machines for the C64 and Atari classics in which  dozens of games,the equivalent to the old computer,and a joystick are combined and sold for $19.99 !

[recidivist]

 The only way I can conceive for the classic Amigas would be through the use of an accel/graphics/memory card add-on and a wedge program that would intercept all relevant calls and process them on-card.Isn't this what a Mediator type system does?

There is so much difference  between possible and practical!
Hobbyists can do try/all sorts of things on their own time and money that would never be approved in a profit-making corporation

[recidivist]

 Whoaaaa,nelly!

  I DO understand  the difference in 16 and 32 bit ,at least in general,and was under the impression that with the AGA 1200 and 4000 the whole machine was 32 bit not just the processor.

  Further,I wondered if the call to from  the 2mb of chipram could not "simply" be diverted  to a new piece of hardware,and the on board chipram ignored.

  I see now that something like the A1000 Phoenix motherboard replacement ,only more ambitious, is necesary.(and hi
ghly unlikely.)

   Now IF I understand correctly,even the old Amiga OS could use more chipram EXCEPT for hardware limits,then someone with enough time,money,and knowledge could make a hardware Amiga Forever.

 Relating to my earlier post,it seems we can enjoy a stock Model T(Amiga) or turn it into a hot rod from mildly souped up to being completely new under the hood.Kind of like the people who write new Sherlock Holmes stories;they will be imitations of the true thing.But  it appears that most still using the Amugas have already added many things not envisioned in Commodore's plans.

[recidivist]

 I's obvious that a hardware UAE is what we want!It should do everything the classic Amiga did,only more and better,and be way cheaper.

 Now I think I'll work on something simpler like an exchange program between Mediteranean and Nordic Hells so the occupants have a chance to cool off or warm up!