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Re: Hardware I would like
« on: June 05, 2015, 05:15:57 PM »
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I would like to have a rapsberry pi bridgeboard.

I thought it out many times, and it could be doable by linking hardwarewise A serial (rs-232) Amiga expansion with the GPIO pins of the raspberry (which could hold itself an rs-232 adapter). A null modem connection in esence.

Softwarewise, they could use some existing network solution (VNC, SMB, etc).


I'd like to see something similar, an adapter that uses the raspberry pi as a daughter card.  It could plug in the way a bridgeboard does and emulate a 486.  It could also transparently provide access to the USB and network for the amiga side, or even memory.  Or it could plug into the CPU slot, and emulate a 68k CPU upgrade or even a PowerPC.

I'm not sure if the gpio port is fast enough for CPU or memory usage by the amiga, but it should be fast enough for ethernet, usb, and disk.

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Re: Hardware I would like
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2015, 05:34:48 AM »
ok, I changed my mind.  Here's my new favorite non-existent card:

A bridgeboard card that has usb ports and an ethernet port, with memory that could be mapped to either the amiga or PC side.  Then you could plug a single board computer into one of the other ISA slots.