So you were put in charge of making the 060 based amiga

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My Siamese System was available around then and showed the way, even running RTG over ethernet which was only 10mbit/sec it could outperform any Amiga graphics card, even having the Winblows OS getting in the way slowing things down.

Commodity plugin hardware support was the future, and that was on PCI only I am afraid. But as PCI I believe was basically Zorro enhanced and refined that is no biggy, ie auto config etc.

Commodore knew what to do, they were told by many engineers, they chose not to do it and perished because of it thinking they could compete with a games machine, fools.

Well dare I say it as I tried to get it done, 060 onto PCI Amiga card, plugged into cheap PC hardware with Siamese software and while AmigaOS was being ported to x86 use winblows as launch tool and driver system and get windows compatibility as well as Amiga and Mac.

Aargh those were the days, but we blew it, sorry. Still I am back for round two.

Steve

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Another company, Checkmate Digital, their response was stick an "A1500" badge on the A2000 and threaten legal action. Both actions being those of a clueless company when what they should have done is taken their idea further.

For those who don't know, Checkmate Digital produced a replacement case for the A500 motherboard for a reasonable fee, this included everything needed to use the A500 keyboard in an external case, and put it in an Amiga 1000ish 3 box design. Was actually smarter looking than the Amiga 2000 tank-a-thon rubbish design too.

My second favourite Amiga product we manufactured, Siamese was my proudest though.

Steve (Ex Director of Checkmate Digital)

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Siamese system is not needed now that we have Aros.

On CDL A1500 a version for A1200 would be pointless and too expensive now, they were expensive beasts to make and only worked financially back then.

Had fun in those days though.