AmiDelf wrote:
Negative responces to this will be ignored.
Why?? not listening to criticism has been the downfall of many companies and lead to many bad products.
Don`t dismiss them just because you don`t like what is said.
Anyway, onto the answers.
1. Stick to a standard form factor, it gives end users more choices of case. But why does the Power VR chip have to be on the motherboard? Integrated gfx chips share system memory which always limits their performance.
2. OS4 or MOS?? Depends if you can get a licence for either..
3. Ditch Zorro slots, far too slow and outdated. Fast enought for a 68k machine, but not a PPC one.
4.Amiga gameports..why?? Since there`s no amiga chipset, many old games etc won`t run on this machine anyway.
But maybe an adapter to plug them into an analogue gameport.
5. USB and PS2.
6. Hate to say this, but use a standard PC keyboard..
Let the end users have a choice in case/keyboard and mouse..
7. Why stick to PowerVR? whats wrong with an OEM AGP card..or at a push a PCI one?
8. The A4000T case is probably waaaaaaay too big for the average user. See the answer to Q6.
9.
What price would you give for such Amiga?
Dunno.. everything you suggest just screams "custom made,small production run" which means bloody expensive.
For a motherboard+CPU bundle, I wouldn`t pay much more than the price of a Peg II.
10.What should the name be of this new Amiga?
The Amiga 1/2 ;-)
11. Bad..
12. Leave the DC controller to an add-on adapter.
Forget about direct DC game compatibility..that`s what emulators are for.
Make the motherboard as simple as possible, don`t go adding stuff that only a few users will want, you can always make it an optional add-on module.
Try and keep the custom stuff to a minimum, and use "off the shelf" parts wherever possible, it`ll lower development time, and lower the end price too.
Otherwise by the time it`s released, it`ll be as outdated as a A500 is now, and the cost will drive people away.
