Has Clone-A died?

[Jope]

I think thats correct. Didn't they show the CloneA chip replacements actually plugged into an A500 motherboard at some show where they had a contest to see if anyone could bring something that would run on the Amiga but not with the cloned chips?

What you replied to was actually an incorrect assumption.

They showed CloneA chips plugged into an A500 motherboard just because they implemented each individual chip separately and that was the best way to test that they indeed worked identically to the originals.

Jens later said that the final CloneA was not going to be like this, but everything would be munged into a custom motherboard / perhaps larger fpga.. Unfortunately I don't have any links to back my claim right now and am in too much of a hurry to dig them up..

[Jope]

Shame Jens doesn't post here anymore perhaps someone could lure him back?

Won't happen any time soon I believe.

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?p=531872#post531872
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?p=533513#post533513

[Jope]

Question is if it's worth waiting for a product with an unknown release date, uknown price, and unknown functionality.

Heh.. Based on reading these Amiga web forums, apart from the unknown functionality part, that seems like your average day for an Amiga diehard? :-)

[Jope]

Jens Has confirmed it is still alive but wont give details incase someone nicks his ideas. I think if its good might leave Natami on proverbial retail shelf and buy Clone-A for real Amiga computer and FPGA arcade for retro amiga.

I think I'll see if any of these make it to the market and decide if any of them suit my application and are worth my money then. :-)