Natami started and stopped again

[psxphill]

The main problem with Natami project has always been that it was too ambitious.

Yeah I agree. People get in their heads that on their own they are going to take on Arm/Motorola/Intel/IBM if they spend months designing something sort of like Amiga but different.
 
If you just work on making something Amiga compatible first then the project will go much better.

[psxphill]

The Super AGA, which was a dumb idea to begin with

Super AGA that is AGA with >2mb chip ram, 1080p resolution and beyond makes sense. At that point adding 8/16/24/32bit chunky modes also makes sense as drag-able screens are then trivial.
 
Applications don't have to hit the hardware registers for it to be more logical to do it this way, applications that support RTG will benefit too.
 
Natami failed because everybody's ego went into overdrive. The CPU for example has spun off and is attempting to become a player in the embedded market.

[psxphill]

Why not just put an S3 DX in there? Put one of the DSPs we were suppose to have as well.

The DSPs that were going to be used in the A3000+ aren't that good now, so it's a lot of effort to do that when we don't have any software for it.
 
Adding an S3 in as well as the AGA output on one video output is a bit of a kludge, I'd rather see AGA improved, which would likely take up less gates.

[psxphill]

Yes but can you name any 68k software that is worth using today?

Why are you here?
 
 An fpga based amiga better than a minimig would be nice, the fpga arcade is closer to what I want but still misses by a bit.