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Offline Tron2k2

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Here's my two cents here

It seems like modern USB2 or firewire would be more than fast enough for anything that ever took place in a real Amiga's memory bus-think around 30 megs/sec which is well within firewire's scope.  So you could theoretically have the Amiga as a device in the firewire chain ;-) and the Amiga would just have a nice, fast CPU.  I know this whole idea isn't practical or, really, even sane :-)  But we're all insane here, so who cares?!

We've all long since gone past the point of being practical.  I mean really, how many of us here bought a GBA1000 and are fully intent on soldering it together, all 476 components or however many it has, so we can have the fastest Amiga 1000 in town?

I'd buy a microITX PeeCee and stick it next to a 1200 in a heartbeat if I could run those old Haujobb demos twice as fast as I could with a Cyberstorm in a 4000.

I've tried UAE but just couldn't ever get it to run the old hardware banging AGA demos right, if at all.  But that was a few years ago, so is the luck better now with them?