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Offline Jethro_Tull

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Re: New x86 "accelerator" for Classic Amiga?
« on: December 12, 2007, 12:16:56 PM »
Nice idea! But it's far from original.  It's already been done on A500, not as an accelerator, but as a hardware emulator;

http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=333

The idea was to load MS-DOS and Windows using the NEC version of an 8080 on board, thus effectively having a fully fledged PC inside the Amiga.  A friend of mine at school had one and it worked beautifully.  Of course, there was no GUI integration as you envisaged.  

Still, with the low power cheap Geode and a custom northbridge I believe it's duable!