natami

[Kesa]

Wouldn't it make sense for the NatAmi people and MikeJ to join forces and use the same softcore? To speed things up?

[Kesa]

Whilst I think this project could have been cool.  I think this turn of events is not exactly surprissing.  I am guessing several walls have been hit

Care to speculate? Anyway i think this is bad news. I was waiting for one of these. What's wrong with the name?

[Kesa]

I agree WinUAE is just an application, an incredible one, but not a physical product like Natami or Minimig so comparison is unfair.

There is nothing wrong with Natami except the price IMO. However you would need to invest something like $1,000,000 to do an FPGA Amiga from scratch to full mass production run as a product to get it well below the magic $100 price barrier. However would you quickly sell 50,000-100,000 units even then to recoup your initial investment from your first batch?

Maybe you might sell more if the machine could connect to something like Apple App store/XBLA/PSN Network style service to buy legally authorised copies of games to use on said machine for a similar price to MP3s on iTunes?

Cost of investment vs potential maximum sales is the issue.

Actually this could easily be done. I think the key is to develop/market the FPGA to markets outside the Amiga community. This way you could sell a lot more than you would if simply targeting the Amiga community. This would include other retro computing markets such as Atari and other markets that may benefit from FPGA what(ever that may be). I said the same thing about TheDaddys x500 too.

[Kesa]

Natami is a monumental waste of time. Nerd trophy at best, monument to the square wheel at worst.

Do you have any imagination whatsoever when it comes to computers? :flak:

[Kesa]

Originally Posted by cha05e90  
WinUAE on a standard x86 PC. Hero. And - by the way - irrelevant and off topic.

On topic: I really would welcome a Mini-Mig on steroids - it doesn't have to be the "wonder machine" that was PR'd by some of the team members.
I agree WinUAE is just an application, an incredible one, but not a physical product like Natami or Minimig so comparison is unfair.

Um.. I'm sorry to burst your excitement but both natami and minimig are just emulators... So if they are just emulators then why not just use an x86pc underneath instead of fpga, whats the difference?

smaller case? You can get tiny pc's now a days that fit in any case.

No they are not.