New type of accelerator design?

[Cammy]

There seem to be enough of the lower-end accelerators to go around, judging by prices, at least for the A1200/2000/3000/4000s.  Do you think you'll get a newly designed one for less money than existing accelerators?

There are NOT enough accelerators around, what are you talking about? Every time one pops up on eBay you get a bidding war and they sell for as much as new hardware or more. One accelerator with more than one person trying to buy it means there's not enough supply, but plenty of demand.

If you make a new A1200 accelerator or RAM card, people WILL buy it. You would sell the whole run in no time. Just look how quickly GVP-m ran out of A1200 accelerators when they announced a new batch earlier in the year (or late last year, whenever it was).

[Cammy]

An accelerator like the one proposed here would be far faster than an 060, and that'd really give classic Amigas a well needed performance boost. 030s aren't that hard to come by, that's true, but the 060s are rare and generally go for more than most of us can afford to pay.

The 020 for the A600 and A500 is going to be awesome though, I'd gladly get a few of these once the project is finished.

I think a simple 8MB RAM card (with automatic switching to 5.5MB when the PCMCIA slot is in use) with a Real-Time Clock on it would be a nice new expansion too, and perfect for WHDLoad and basic internet stuff (even one page at a time browsing). Just like a new internal 8MB RAM/RTC/Clockport expansion for the CD32 would be awesome, especially if it had an ethernet port on it.

[Cammy]

I also think a new PPC accelerator for classic Amigas would be kind of pointless now. First, to keep it compatible it would still need a rare/expensive 68k CPU on it. Then it'd need a PPC as well, and with this you'd still be bottlenecked by the slow A1200 bus and AGA chipset, and probably would only be able to run OS4.0 (not 4.1), and that's provided they're 100% compatible with the old 603/604 accelerators, or else Hyperion would have to make another port. It would probably end up costing as much or more than a Sam440 too.