Amiga Card PPC developing

[itix]

read the thread, no one will make profit, he will an card for os 4, for classic amiga. 50.000 Euro is only for devoloping.

So, somebody, maybe you, is going to pay 50000 euros to develop new PPC card. And once that 50k is spent and design it starts raining new PPC cards from the sky? Sounds good.

[itix]

I don't think it's that much, 50 000€ is 50€ x 1000 amiga users. Frankly going by eBay prices and Classic/ppc amiga (OS4/MOS) users on forums I'd say there would be plenty people willing to give those 50€ as even donation!

You never raise 50000€ from donations. There probably arent even one thousand Amiga users left...

And of course, when that board goes to the production you pay all expenses in advance. Which means you must get funding somewhere, maybe from a bank.

And this is just to get some PPC card for old 15 years old Amigas. It makes no sense. Spend 50k only to run OS4 or MorphOS on old Amigas... most Amiga users dont even use AGA which makes me wonder why they need real Amiga at all in these days... maybe nostalgia and retro feeling but I dont see OS4 or MorphOS in that context. They need new hardware, not some old G2 technology derivate from 1993.

And again you need 68k cpu or it is useless to most users. You cant run old games and demos in OS4 or MorphOS due to memory protection and other changes.

[itix]

Thus I wonder if it wouldn't be better to let the development be based on one of the SOC designs bplan is working on for Genesi anyway, with a fat FPGA interconnected containing Dennis van Weeren's custom chip emulation for compatibility.

As far as PPC Amigas are concerned I dont see point in AGA (as in emulated by FPGA). Neither OS4 or MorphOS (or AROS) can run old HW banging demos and games (those which take over computer). It is mostly that Paula and CIA support that matters rather than gfx.

If AGA compatibility is mandatory it is better continue 68k support in way or another than switch CPU.'