Would you support this project? -please read-

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@AmiDelf

I, for one, would love such a project.  In fact, I've been designing my own custom chipset for several years, but it's a hobby project more for my own self satisfaction than anything.  It also is not compatible with the Amiga's chipset, a lot of the elements from the Amiga's design are undesirable in a modern system.

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@Speelgoedmannetje

Why "like" the PS2's chipset?  Sony sells the chipset independently ya know.

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@PMC

Pinky, are you thinking what I'm thinking?

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@Lemmink

The development cycle today is actually better than it was in 1984.  I, being 1 man, working in my spare time, developed a system control chipset incl audio and 3d accelerated video, in 7 years.  That's 1 man, working an average of 10 hours a week and having taken all of last year off from development.

And I have 350 more man-hours till it will be finished, conservative estimate.

Wanna know why?

The migration from schematical entries to hardware description languages combined with the arrival of inexpensive FPGA's that are useful for testing out a design in a real-world situation.  Most of the old development-cycle has been supplanted.  Then add in licensable cores, and the development time is now months.

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@patrik

It's not at a point I feel comfortable demonstrating it.  The basics are pretty straightforward, it is a 2-chip solution that covers audio, I/O and video in a system.  A copper-like solution combined with a GPU and DSP, a little more difficult to program than the Amiga but you can do more with it.

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@bloodline

Actually you can put the EE w/ graphics system as a subsystem of a computer rather than as the heart.

In fact, a similar manner to how the Hombre was to work.