Was PCI for Amiga a good choice?

[psxphill]

Using a PCI setup is the same as using a CSPPC card, they were not in Amiga's plans and are not "original hardware,"

Not entirely. You can use a PCI sound, video or scsi card with the same software that runs on an a2000 back in the day.

The plan for backward compatibility was to have a new version of AGA render into graphics memory on a PCI graphics card, it would make sense to do that too. That plus a 68k core could fit in an FPGA. If you use one that supported PCI express then it would make a really nice cheap motherboard, it would sell more than an X1000.

[psxphill]

You saved no money and its still mediocre at best.

I'd love to know where there is a huge number of cheap A4000's.

[psxphill]

The Mediator and other such expansions were/are a bit kludgy, but it's a safe assertion to make that if Commodore/Amiga persisted into the late '90s they would have adopted industry standard busses and edge connector profiles such as PCI.

It's possible that next gen Alice would have been able to output video over the PCI bus into graphics memory. What they would do in the low end machines and quite how TV out would work is another matter.

I personally would prefer a new AGA that was faster and had texture mapping etc built in though. It's a pity that RTG ever became necessary.

[psxphill]

Damn, Amiga purists can be such flat earthers.
I doubt if Jay had lived longer that he would have agreed with such sentiment.

Ranger already did it but commodore wouldn't release it.