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Re: Using a PC as an accelerator? Had an idea last night....
« on: August 21, 2008, 09:51:41 PM »
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BillHarrison wrote:

Power on, PC sees +5v on a certain line, telling the amiga has been powered on.  At this point, and I don't know the technicalities of it, it likely starts reading from the Amiga Rom chip for hardware level boot info.  The pc just acts like the 68000.  

Am I clear enough? Or am I explaining this wrong.


I don't think everyone agrees this is possible.  I mean they are computers we can make them do whatever we want.  You are right, it's digital data, we hook some wires up from the A1200 expansion portlet say, and hook it to the PC (either USB, PCI, Firewire) and then have some emulation software that translates, so the PC looks like one big honking 68k hanging off the A1200 expansion bus.

Possible, but not easy.  No one has done it.

Next option is but 68k emultion code and the Amiga Rom image inside the PC Bios, then but the Amiga Chips on a PCI card.  Then turn the hold PC into a miggy
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