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Re: Most bang for 600 USD?
« on: September 08, 2012, 10:45:30 PM »
You people don't want much.
$600? That's all you want to pay?
And the seller just has to develop a new 68K processor, a new chipset, and somehow miraculously get licenses for the legacy software (as well as develop the new code that implements the new features).
 
Hey, who wouldn't want to invest in that?
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Re: Most bang for 600 USD?
« Reply #1 on: September 08, 2012, 10:55:47 PM »
Quote from: freqmax;707264
I intended something that excite general tech nerds. In particular something that makes it possible to do something that isn't possible currently for that kind of economic price point. The physcal technologies of Amiga is too far away in the tech race to build something competitive upon.
 
Do remember that the capacity of a "normal" PC became available for really large corporations and goverments in the 1960s. The problem were size and price.
 
Oh and for ARM emulation of 68k, it's a nice idea but will wreck cycle accurency and lock-step.

 
OK, that's closer to home.
You get some big money backers.
You contract IBM to make a processor similar to what's going in the next generation of game consoles.
 
You design a basic machine that can either play games or be expanded into a real computer (add a little memory, a keyboard, a mouse, etc).
 
You pay the MorphOS developers big money to devote real time to taking their OS to where Quark could have gone - multitasking Q-Box (and A-Box can be retained for Amiga compatibility and maybe even enhanced).
 
Sell it for slightly more then a game console by appealing to hackers and technically oriented electronic enthusiasts ($600 sounds right).
 
Think it would generate some excitement?
 
And no Amiga name, so no curse.
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Re: Most bang for 600 USD?
« Reply #2 on: September 09, 2012, 02:27:11 AM »
Personally, I'd just buy a 4000 on Ebay.
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Re: Most bang for 600 USD?
« Reply #3 on: September 09, 2012, 03:39:22 AM »
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I suspect even the TI:s "Stellaris LM4F120 LaunchPad - ARM Cortex-M4" for 5 USD would run circles round the A4000. So the thing is to get the most out of those 600 USD, and I suspect a combo of DSP-FPGA-RAM will do just that.

I don't know. We'll see when TI gets around to shipping me one. They're only 80 MHz so this isn't going to be A9 level performance.
 
Besides, I was comment on the idea of bothering with the gba1000.
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Re: Most bang for 600 USD?
« Reply #4 on: September 09, 2012, 04:54:07 PM »
Quote from: psxphill;707343
When you add any accelerator to an Amiga then cycle accuracy is no longer possible.

Amiga's are not cycle exact machines in any case.
Compare models with different processors, different models, different chipsets.
None are identical, so cycle exact reproduction is unimportant as it doesn't affect software.
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Re: Most bang for 600 USD?
« Reply #5 on: September 10, 2012, 04:55:26 AM »
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"And as long as I'm dreaming, I'd like a pony."

If its going to be equine I want a quarterhorse. They're like big puppies.
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Re: Most bang for 600 USD?
« Reply #6 on: September 10, 2012, 09:06:01 PM »
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Just thought of something...
Various cybernetic implants would impress the hell out of me :)
I'd give 600 bucks, and more for that !

 
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