We don't really need PPC accelerators for Classic Amiga's. We need new classic Amiga's without the the limitations of the old ones. The old ones are failing day by day and you have to be tech savy to be able to keep one running properly.
I'd want to be able to have a similar speed with a Pentium4 running at 3ghz. I'd want the CPU to be a newly produced - still produced CPU.
I wouldn't care that much if the Amiga needed to emulate 68k.
I'd want to be be able to use "current" industry standards. I mean I don't want to look for ddr2 rams when everybody sells ddr3 rams today. I don't want to look for sata harddrives while ssd on a pci-express is going to become a standard in a year or two. I don't want to look for old ATI cards when I can buy ati 48xx, 58xx and 68xx cards easily today.
This machine should be comparable to PCs of 2005 yet priced around good PC's that are being produced today. 2000$ should be the maximum price without monitor and they should also have a slower version with a 999$ price.
If OS4/MOS was ported to X86 your needs would be covered then. We are Amiga not Mac lovers and Amiga means superior to Windows X86 box AND costs less. Unless they achieve the price/performance of Xbox 360 motherboard as in late 2006 then they shouldn't bother making any hardware.....just port an OS4 version to x86 because it makes no sense as real Amiga production died with the A4000 and A1200. FACT.
A 3.4ghz P4 PC sells for 50 bucks so why would I buy some random non X86 machine for 1000s which would be as good as a used PC costing 50 bucks?. My problem is
1. I don't like Linux/Windows/OS X....there is nothing wrong with the current hardware.
2. I don't like overpriced underpowered PPC crap with nothing to do with the light years ahead of their time Amiga 1000 chipset designers to run OS4 just to avoid the above 3 OS
IF C=USA just sold cases AND wrote a decent OS from scratch for their chosen x86 spec then fair enough. But their cases are 300% overpriced and their blue/light blue colour themed Linux OS is more a joke than a new choice. There's already a Wb1.3 and Wb3.0 GUI skin for Linux and it's FREE derrrrr.
Or perhaps a 604 PPC core emulator to run OS4 inside WINUAE at BlizzardPPC/CyberstormPPC 233mhz levels that works too.
There will never be a true Amiga hardware replacement that is value for money, best you can hope for is a new OS.
