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Re: Natami style SuperAGA card for A4000/A1200?
« on: August 02, 2012, 01:14:07 AM »
I'm not ultra-familiar with the internals, but I doubt there's a way to un-map the existing chipset from its position in memory, and while you could solve that by making it part of an accelerator, I'm not sure that you could get DMA to/from the replacement chip RAM to work with expansion cards that way. It seems like it'd be more trouble than just getting a Natami, and likely no cheaper.
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Re: Natami style SuperAGA card for A4000/A1200?
« Reply #1 on: August 03, 2012, 05:33:33 PM »
But by the time you get up to SIMMs/DIMMs it all has to go through the onboard memory controller, doesn't it? That's the reason I haven't put faster RAM in my 386, even though 12MHz RAM on a 40MHz system is an obvious bottleneck: the memory controller can't keep up with anything faster.

Really, that's the problem with the whole idea: there's a lot of hardware in the Amiga that's designed to be superceded by things like RTG, but not replaced with a functionally-equivalent enhancement. In order to replace all of it, you'd likely have to replace so much of the system board that it'd be easier just to build a full system replacement...
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