Was PCI for Amiga a good choice?

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It would be better if there were drivers for more PCI cards.  For example, if I could use my Matrox VGA card with my Voodoo 1 card in my Amiga, it'd be pretty sweet.  Then again, with only 4 slots in my 4000Di, it's hard to pick and choose which cards to use, right now I have Spider 2.0, Radeon 9250 and a 10/100 ethernet card.  

I have an adaptec scsi card as well, and there is a driver for that, but unfortunately there isn't really a way to boot off of such a device.

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A few questions concerning PCI:

Is video refresh and speed noticeable fast than a CV 64 for normal tasks, like using final writer or playing a game like nightlong?  

Can you use DVI out?

How stable is a rig using all PCI cards on the Mediator?

I can at least answer some of this.

Not sure about the comparison between CV 64 and Mediator PCI card, but yes you can use DVI Out (that's how I have mine set up, VGA through the Indivision AGA MK1 and DVI Out through my Radeon 9250)

And yes it's quite stable (I have the aforementioned Radeon, Fast 10/100 NIC, Spider 2.0 all plugged into the Mediator, and the Indivision under neath.)

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It is a god****** shame that the rest of us cannot also own a Natami.  I would buy that over the "Reloaded" or any other "modern classic" hardware.  Put it in a Kickstarter and I would contribute $1000+ today.  I'm sure I'm not the only one.  *sigh*

I'd most certainly buy one.  I was drooling after the Natami for quite some time, and wish it'd still surface in a purchasable form.

Seriously, why hasn't there been a kick starter for it?

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So this is the way I basically look at it;

While slapping all the extra PCI bus things into an Amiga doesn't really make it more Amiga or less Amiga, the fact remains that there is quite a decent amount of software that will take advantage of RTG cards, workbench itself runs a heck of a lot faster than it does in AGA, looks a lot nicer as well.

So I have the best of both worlds in my system, 060 with RTG when I need/want it.  Most everything plays extremely well in AGA (if they're 'native' games), and ports like the ones Novacoder have been doing work great either way.  I'll be honest, for the most part, the RTG video modes have been used by me mostly to log onto aminet or wherever to download utilities.  It's far easier and better to use Workbench at 1920x1080 with all the separate windows that it opens, than it is at 640x512, not to mention occasionally running into the fun times of running out of chip memory.

So while I'll readily play AGA/ECS/OCS games, I prefer the utilities to be in a bit higher resolution.

Granted I could have hunted for a Zorro based graphics card, but then are those any more 'Amiga'?

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