What would your ideal upgrade be right now for your Amiga(s)

[TheBilgeRat]

NOT counting a Natami, or Minimig, or other FPGA thingamabob :lol:

I would like some new PPC/68K accelerator for the 1200s and 4000s
or some sort of ZorroII/III fast storage solution (IDE or SATA)
Heck, I'd like some sort of AIO Network, Storage, Sound card thingy, like an Xsurf/tocatta/SATA card...

[TheBilgeRat]

I have thought about this, as a side note of thinking about USB Mice and Keyboards for my MiniMig.  I would think that a fairly cheap Arm processor could handle the USB stack and then interface to the Amiga in whatever protocol the Amiga could handle.  The idea being that to the Amiga it looks like a standard disk drive, and to the USB device it would look like an Arm computer.  Using this method you could use 100% of the the processor for the USB stack and interface to the Amiga, as that is the only task the Arm processor would be responsible for.  This would be useful for interfacing USB hard drives, USB keyboards, and USB mice.

Like a modified raspberry pi device...  seems imminently doable.

[TheBilgeRat]

You recognize that the Deneb is a High Speed USB 2.0 card available for years now that can have a throughput of over 8.5 MByte/sec on an Amiga Classic system? And about the interrupts: well, it very much depends on the controller and the driver. The Deneb transfers double buffered chunks of 24 KB each per interrupt. That's a lot bigger than your average 1500 Byte Ethernet frames... Even the Subway/Highway does not cause an interrupt for every 64 bytes transferred...

Is this the reason for the quick throughput on ethernet dongles on a Deneb?