Amiga Card PPC developing

[Damion]

A G3/G4 A1200 PPC card makes absolutely no sense. It makes "slightly" better sense for a big-box Amiga, even then I highly doubt there are even 1000 A4k owners who would be interested. (Actually, it sounds like a slow, expensive, hacked-up architectural mess.)

Best option for OS4/MOS/AROS users = modern or semi-modern PPC/X86

Best option(s) for "classic" 68k Amiga users = emulation, MiniMig, "Real" HW or possibly NatAmi

The only type of card that *might* sell OK IMHO would be something like an '030 A1200 card. I'd bet there are far more people out there who would spring a buck-fifty to run WHDLoad comfortably on their old A1200s, as opposed to those willing to spend $1000 to run OS4 on their _old as hellz_ A3000, especially at the expense of games/demos/WHDLoad/etc.



 

[Damion]

Sticking with PPC, wouldn't you want something along the lines of a Pegasos/etc rather than an expensive custom card which requires interfacing with a 25 year old A3K motherboard?? What's the difference between porting OS4 to run on a new board for classic HW, and porting it to run on something more modern/standalone? Wouldn't the latter be more desireable?

You'd still have to disable the thing on bootup to run old chip-bangning software, anyway.

If the point is just to have a sweet vintage setup w/PPC (novelty factor), it might make more sense. (I'm ready to dump $$$ for an A2K turbocard, as soon as I find one... some would call that ridiculous). But 50,000? Between 1 and 2 thousand _at best_ is probably a better estimate... all IMHO.