I am all for it... but... by adding an RTG card onto the accelerator the project suddenly becomes 10x more complicated. I believe it will be complicated enough that he will just keep delaying and delaying and delaying it and then... it never happens.
That sounds 10x easier. And I would rather have a real 060 card with 2GB of RAM on it than a theoretical version with RTG on it that doesn't exist and has no drivers.
Elbox will happily sell you a Mediator board with PCI slots on it and a 256MB PCI gfx card with drivers for Amiga computers today.
I don't see any compelling reason for him to just duplicate what Elbox already did for us. Duplicating Elbox does not advance the Amiga community. Elbox has a website. They will accept your money. They will give you a working product. I have a Mediator that is around 13 years old and still works great.
If he tries to add RTG onto the board then he will right away spend 200 hours shopping around for a gfx chip to put on the board, reading comments about it, looking at source code of drivers, trying to find a good price, etc. etc. then he has to work out how to control access to the RAM since the gfx chip and the 060 will be fighting each other for access. It becomes real hard work and will take forever.
I know you're right, but it would be really brilliant to have a new 060/graphics card combo all in the 1200 case (I'm not a fan of towers).
Personally I don't mind waiting for something truly amazing. I mean, what's the rush? If this chap can really do this, then lets do it proper and have a real think about it. Without a super graphics capability, I don't see the need for all that RAM.
