Time for AROS and Natami ?

[Piru]

@kolla

I thought some of the point with Natami was to be backwards compatible for OS3.x.

Didn't you get the memo? Natami is the cure for cancer and it will also fix the global warming.

creeping featurism

[Piru]

I never stops to amaze me how any reason flies out of the door as soon as someone whiffs some imaginary super amiga at people.

[Piru]

@kolla

pot calling kettle black - look who's talking, if it isnt someone from the Blue Camp, where the prosperous future is all laid out and everything is happy-lala

Last I checked we delivered - on schedule.

If someon wants to persue their interests and try to build a new enhanced amiga chipset... what the heck is wrong with that?

The designs are totally unrealistic. It will never complete as described on the website.

It's sad actually, at first the plans were somewhat realistic, at least. Since then everything and the kitchen sink have been added, making it virtually impossible for the project to ever complete.

[Piru]

@wawrzon

even if the natami team, which seems mostly to be just one person that doesnt talk much, isnt going to deliver, jens schoenfeld has undertook some steps to catch up. (with his at the moment c-one based a-clone project)

Clone-A is not C=1 based. Clone-A is bunch of pin compatible replacement chips (Denise, Gary, Paula and CIA). At later stage those can also be merged to a single chip machine.

A500 loaded with Clone-A custom chips

[Piru]

@wawrzon

Uh, aren't there any better ways to do this than to use seriously space-constrained C=1 ?

As far as I know there are very good FPGA development kits available these days. Way better than anything C=1 has to offer.

[EDIT]

Ah, the C=1 FPGA extender:
http://c64upgra.de/c-one/pics/FPGA_extender_proto.jpg
http://c64upgra.de/c-one/pics/c1extender_final.jpg

Fair enough, makes more sense now.

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[Piru]

@bloodline

the existing software can't use anything beyond what the AGA chipset provides.

Exactly...

And for any current software to take advantage of the new graphics modes, new audio modes or 3D, you'd first need to write RTG drivers, AHI drivers and Warp3D drivers.

Those things don't just drop out of the sky. You can easily spend years on 3D drivers alone.