Would you support this project? -please read-

[lempkee]

i simply dont see this as viable at all , i would love to mess with AAA and all that but i know why commodore and amiga + escom + gateway + tulip didnt go further into it , as it costs money!! and alot of it!.

we surely need something special in the next gen amiga's but i would say that instead of thinking about AAA (which is infact dated compared to the saturn's 2d and the playstation 1's 3d) we should instead ask ati/matrox/nvidia to do an AMIGA styled gfx chip/customs, they have the expertise and they are the ones who make the new standards, and as we all know everything in the pc world theese days ages rapidly.

Gc/xbox and ps2 got their own custom designs based on well known designs from the time they where built and improved , making new stuff from scratch would (i guess) make the consoles even expensiver + would put the creators in an money issue over time..

dont get me wrong, i am a big fan of amiga and its custom chips and i would love to see an AGA on PCI card or simmilar ways but thats just about as long as i would go for now.

Amiga needs money, amiga needs an os and most of all Amiga needs to rise in its potential market before we can dream about a new custom design.

we all know what happened to the A/box , BOXER and so on, diffrent designs i would love to have but as time went on it showed how hard it would be and most of all the kind of an budget you would need.

[lempkee]

amidelf:i doubt that mr.thinker (mr.tinker?) or any of the others would be interested to continue on their projects, we all know what it led to in the end..

and most of all the boxer was cool in 99 but by todays standard it would be crap compared to lets say an (allready old) AmigaOne .

[lempkee]

amidelf: btw since u suggested Coldfire and its 2xx mhz model, would you please tell me (and others) how fast that is compared to ...lets say an 060 /50 mhz cpu and most of all the compability it has regarding the 68k family , i know the answer but i suspect someone else on here doesnt!

and another problem is that coldfire needs its own kernel and os code, it is compatible to some extent but you will need special sw to "make use of" the coldfire cpu.

i know i will invest in the coldfire board that OLIVER is making, but i do that mostly because i want it in my cd32! and i dont expect it to run os4.

[lempkee]

if a 200mhz coldfire is faster than a 060/50 in dooing amigaos 3.x then i am the tooth ferry (lol not the boat) ..

do some research before you state that the 200mhz is faster, and btw u would need a helluva lot faster cpu if you want to do m68k emulation.

but then again i guess u want to ask hyperion or whom ever to do an port of the os for it, but then remeber thats where you are at the rock bottom again, as you need coldfire software!!! or else you will have to emulate m68k and the 200mhz is NOT! i repeat NOT! faster than an 060/50 under emulating.

[lempkee]

imaboringperson:i dont know when u used an real amiga last but , i am pretty sure amiga is "92" .. but then again i belive u where just messing :=)

anyway


amidelf:good luck with sony , best chance u have is to step into their office in oslo or use any of the big developer teams in norway to reach them (Hp/Dell etc) and this i say because i had to do the same some time ago , there is an "question form on the sony website , diffrent to which sections you use" or was anyway.

anyway if i had 3 billion ukp in my account i might have tried this, but first of all i would have decided everything and made sure it was waterproof! (ie no mishapps or changes as you go (which killed COMMODORE and many more)