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Re: New type of accelerator design?
« on: December 11, 2009, 01:28:51 PM »
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Is the trapdoor only for ram and processors? Or could a graphics card (in theory) be designed for it?


In theory all could happen.Problem is that amiga is not alive anymore in the commercial sense.Back in 80ies or 90ies you could go into any major store that sells computer and electronics and you could find any major supplier selling hardware and software for amiga.Nowdays amiga is just retro thing,and even if not sometimes you have to be a specialist shaman that knows magic words such as amiga os 4.x and sam 440 which most people wouldn't know.

Now in theory if amiga zorro boards and the entire amiga thing would be alive we could have expansions like these.But you see....amiga tries to catch up with the latest pc upgrades.

Mediator pci cards,usb.In my opinion we could even use amiga just as a keyboard controller and psu (easily make a new fpga p4 or ppc g5 card on the expansion slot,use 4 gigabytes of ram and make it boot into a new os.What would amiga then be?Just a keyboard and psu.)

In theory everything is possible
But how many developers are active and how much money we they want to make out of a so fragmented market as the amiga ? (morphos,amiga os 4,aros,amiga os 3.x)