Looking forward to vampire A1200

[Iggy]

From EAB;

"A500/1000/2000 probably in spring/summer of this year and A1200 perhaps in autumn/winter."

As much as I have bitched about it and I'll still admit I would  love to have an A2000 Vampire.

[Iggy]

At least don't count on Jens (Individual) to pick this up, he's very open about his FPGA allergy...

The whole point of buying directly is to keep prices down.
Why would I want part of what I'm paying to  going to Jens?

After all, he  has spent years claiming to have re-engineered Amiga core components with similar parts only to claim that he couldn't release anything without an OS license.
And now he has an OS license.

[Iggy]

Theoretically the A500 version would work in an A2000 Jim.

Yeah, I know, but can you imagine the ugly socket adapter for that?
I'll just wait unit they build a similar board with a DIP arrangement.

[Iggy]

An A2000 workstation should have at least 128Mb mem and support many Zorro cards. Don't know that the 500 version will do this. It really should go in the Expansion slot anyway.

I'll be in line for that right away!

PS: reaaly should have a SATA controller with proper DMA also.

DMA SATA via Zorro II?
You need to take a look at the maximum transfer rates of both of those to get an idea of how bad that would be.

How about SATA support via a controller chip connected directly to the FPGA?

[Iggy]

Isn't that the Amiga way though? Hack it and patch it!  You should see the monstrosity inside my my A3000 lol (SCSI>IDE>SD>MicroSD)

Its not just the Amiga way.
One time, I spent a week slowly modifying the keyboard matrix of a Tandy Model 4P keyboard so I could fit it in a Color Computer 3 case (just to have the numeric pad).

And the mods on my Atari 130XE are ridiculous.

Hacker do some weird sh*t sometimes.