New Amiga Accelerators

[SamuraiCrow]

@bd1308

The Natami should be available in a year and your accelerator cards will be obsolete.  They are going to try to put a 680x0 series core on the same chip as an enhanced reengineered version of the AGA chipset called SuperAGA.  Their 100 MHz 68060-based developer boards should be available within a few months.

You are getting behind already.  Maybe you should join up with the Natami team instead.  By building the graphics chips into the same die as the main processor they will be able to take shortcuts and integrate in ways never before possible on any Amiga.

[SamuraiCrow]

No, the Natami is 68060 based and therefore only addresses 2 gigs of addressible fast ram.

That's why Atheist wants it as a Ram disk.

[SamuraiCrow]

@Atheist

First of all, PCI RAM disks did exist before Vista came out and, by using them as a swap partion, they did make Windows XP boot at Amiga-like speeds.  They used the always-live power rail from the power supply to hold their contents.

Second of all, flash drives wear out faster than hard drives and cost more.

Thirdly, hybrid flash/hard drive combos are available for Vista and allow Vista to almost perform as well as XP or better if you have more RAM than the 32-bit version of XP could address.

These technologies are real and are almost no selling point to the Amiga since they only work on PCs.