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Re: 3 more NatAmi's - Yippee!
« on: August 13, 2011, 10:43:32 AM »
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I'm excited about this hardware, and for one prefer to have the actual facts.

One thing I can say though that deeply saddens me about all these new Amiga clones is that NONE of them will work with old Amiga hardware such as the Toaster, SuperGen+, ChromaKey+, etc.

With that in mind, we are still witnessing the death of a large piece of Amiga history. When our original Amigas die, it dies. :(

Amiga genlocking works on Natami. I expect external genlocks to work just fine.
We decided to put 15KHz RGB video output/input on a small expansion board to keep costs down for people who are fine with just having DVI/VGA.

Zorro cards is a different question. Natami is PCI only for now. Theoretically, a Zorro expansion could be made for the SZorro bus. This is not anything we will be pursuing ourselves, but we take care not to break the possibility of doing it. (AutoConfig-wise, etc.)
 

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Re: 3 more NatAmi's - Yippee!
« Reply #1 on: August 14, 2011, 05:46:55 PM »
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Don't get me wrong, but to me anything under 2.4 ghz is a total waste of time.

Hello. Natami is a hobbyist project. We are pushing the limits for what is possible making an Amiga compatible system with current small-scale production tech. Producing a 2.4 GHz system like you are demanding would require hundreds of thousands of dollars for development and production. Would you be interested in financing that? Unless you want to, I suggest you stick with a standard PC if you need those speeds.

Natami is for people who actually want to use an Amiga-compatible computer with some modernizations, not for someone wanting to play the latest 3D games. It is a small niche system. Put it into some perspective.
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