CU_AMiGA wrote:
Hey Yo!
I was thinking, wouldn't it be great if someone released a handheld A500 gaming console, that used floppy disk, like the original. The joypad can be switched to Joy0/1 or mouse mode. And could have a big widescreen in the style of a PSP (although better quality!). Plus, technology today, will make the battery life pretty reasonable now, compared to if it had been done years ago. Good idea? :-)
Regards
Would've been great, but the parts and R&D cost would be rather killer, not to mention the energy cost (vs. weight) in spinning the floppy.* Now, if you took (or found) something GP32-esque with UAE and managed to produce an adapter to 'rip' Amiga floppies onto the device, that'd be cute.
Bonus points, as I always note, for giving an A600 or similar continued purpose as some sort of 'terminal' for same. But that's how it ends up working naturally -- you need an Amiga to generate the ADFs, so let that part live on your desk and carry the rest on low-power, low-size Flash or whatever.
*Yes, old floppy-only laptops got pretty decent battery life, but have you seen the size of their batteries? ... and those ate the latency of spinning the disk down and up per access, while, IIRC, the Amiga constantly spins the hub when the disk is in, right?
