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Offline AAACHIPSET

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Re: The PA-7150 CPU in the Hombre chipset?
« on: June 06, 2013, 05:36:55 PM »
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It would have been the main CPU and the chipset would have been "Amiga" in name only as it was a clean break. Any compatibility would have been achieved through emulation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_Hombre_chipset

It would have been much like other console development, each generation a clean break with the previous. A different architecture etc. It's what they should have done, arguably, with the A1200/A4000.

It's all speculation anyway.
this was after  the AAAchipset ?? or was this the board which wouldve had aaachipset ..
A500 3.1/8meg/2gigscsi ...wants a 040
CD32/SX1/FMV/FLASHDRIVE/  wants sx32pro
A1200  os3.5 030/50/fpu/mmu/2flashdrives/cd/   indivision coming ..............wants a ppc/060  ACCEL :laughing:
 

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Re: The PA-7150 CPU in the Hombre chipset?
« Reply #1 on: June 07, 2013, 05:42:45 PM »
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AAA was to be something of a bridging solution between ECS and Hombre... Instead AGA was rushed out (despite what anyone says, it's little more than a bug fixed ECS) as commodore was losing money hand over fist and marketed as a new generation...

But ultimately the Amiga line would have ended with AAA, hombre was the future... There are suggestions by various engineers that the Amiga operating system would have been ported over... But C= execs wanted WinNT.
i always wanted a new amiga with a newchipset  ..one of the reasons i liked the new idea of natami as it wouldve been a real upgrade ..no ppc  but better graphics etc..
i really liked the voodoo cards  too ..had all the versions ..still got 2 or 3 voodoo 2s  a voodoo 3  an 4  an a voodoo 5 i need to do a small solder too ..got the voodoo 5 to maybe one day use it with the ppc  expansion board ..but realized its agp..guess im just sentimental..
A500 3.1/8meg/2gigscsi ...wants a 040
CD32/SX1/FMV/FLASHDRIVE/  wants sx32pro
A1200  os3.5 030/50/fpu/mmu/2flashdrives/cd/   indivision coming ..............wants a ppc/060  ACCEL :laughing: