The most ambitious hardware proposal ever... UAU (wow)

[billt]

@MskoDestny

Someone needs to implement the basic Amiga chipset in FPGA and build a new system around that.

BoXeR tried and failed, and they had a good bit of money involved.

At this point, with OS4 no longer relying on the classic chipset, why must it be present at all? AmigaOne doesn't need it. If Troika works out that won't need it. (I refuse to call it Prometheus as I already bought an Amiga harware by that name, I wish Troika would rename theirs to something unique) There's no TECHNICAL reason OS4 couldn't run on Pegasos, only political, and it doesn't rely on the old chipset.

So I don't see any reason to have it at all anymore. Maybe Jeri will make an Amiga in a joystick someday to play classic games like Lemmings on TV or something, to complement the C64 joystick, but other than that I don't see any reason to bother anymore.

[billt]

Really I was just trying to come up with a way to get around the PCI/Zorro bottleneck.

Get rid of Zorro completely. The Grex pretty much does that for you already bt going direct through the CSPPC's expansion connector and avoiding Zorro that Mediator is still subject to. I'm not sure what more beyond that you'd want from your proposed "fatherboard".

I know it's hard to find Grex, and I'm not sure how well OS4 supports it, but it is one already existing candidate for you.