Amiga 5000 ?

[takemehomegrandma]

melott wrote:
With all the talk lately about the A1 and all the other
options, and even someone selling 'new/referbished'
A500s.
Where would the Amiga be now if someone picked
up where Comodore left off.
I mean we all love our classic Amigas... so what if
some company decided to start making a new
'Classic Amiga'. Like take an A4000 MoBo and
stick an 060 at 50mhz, soup-up the bus alittle,
make the PC slots active so you can use those
nice PC GFX cards or defalt to AGA. Maybe add
a couple USB ports and FireWire.
Priced along side a PC,  
      I'd buy one

  Mel Ott
 (dreaming)
 ;-)  ;-)  ;-)  ;-)

IMO, it would be really nice! :-)

Please have a look at this (look for my comments in the thread).

What do you think about this?

OK, perhaps the coldfire CPU isn't the ultimate choice of CPU. The PPC will obviously be better from a performance (and future) POV, but IMO it would be nice to have a more "Amiga" like system design than just another "PC" CPU/NorthBridge/SouthBridge design. The "Not Yet-Another-PC" would be the main point, not the CPU itself.

Anyway, I'm really looking forward to the "Commodore One"! :-D

[takemehomegrandma]

An Amiga-on-a chip, would be a better idea.

The AGA-chipset-in-FPGA would work nicely with the PDA idea expressed in the ANN thread.

This looks interesting in the above context: http://www.xilinx.com/xlnx/xil_prodcat_landingpage.jsp?title=Virtex-II+Pro+FPGAs

A high performance FPGA with 0, 1, 2 or 4 PPC405 processors @400 MHz included on the chip!

BTW, have you heard of the Genesi "Eclipsis"? That will require a new kind of chipset. Before the deal with MAI screwed up, they were cooperating with MAI to develop one. That won't be AGA though ...