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Offline Hyperspeed

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Re: What if ?
« Reply #29 from previous page: October 19, 2006, 01:43:54 AM »
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Taller base feet, then it would make a great step stool.

Come on dudes... get a life. The machine is no longer viable by todays standards. Nothing but a tinker toy now, but if it does what you want at the moment, then there's not much reason to want it to do more.

No flames please. just my nickles worth...


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Re: What if ?
« Reply #30 on: October 19, 2006, 04:42:31 PM »
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Taller base feet, then it would make a great step stool.

Come on dudes... get a life. The machine is no longer viable by todays standards. Nothing but a tinker toy now, but if it does what you want at the moment, then there's not much reason to want it to do more.

No flames please. just my nickles worth...


Asthmatics might want to leave the room about now...



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It is nice to think of an Amiga with modern specs. But even Apple is caving in to Intel x86 based computers... And their OS is now... Well you know the story.

So a new Amiga based on the old technologies would have to be something very special indeed.

But a nice, affordable Amiga with the most common accessories and some desirables built into a neat little package would have me sold in an instant.
Give me a handheld Amiga with at least ECS. An SD card for a HDD, maybe WiFi and/or Bluetooth.

Seems like I'm asking for a palm with a modified Dragonball. Palm and Amiga hybrid. Awwwwwww Yeeeeeeeah. Thats for me.
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Re: What if ?
« Reply #31 on: October 19, 2006, 04:59:23 PM »
I truly believe that the a1200 should have had a HD and a cdrom as default. PCs were starting to be sold with cdroms at the time when a1200 was released. Also the soundcard should really have been upgraded. 8bit sound was excellent in the 80s, but it was quite outdated when the a1200 was released. I really cannot understand why commodore never upgraded such important part of the hardware. They basicly milked the amiga for all it was worth. We really did not see much innovation in the amiga hardware after the a500.
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Re: What if ?
« Reply #32 on: October 19, 2006, 07:50:20 PM »
@Tomas

The reason was compatibilty with hardware-banging software.  The AHI drivers weren't available until later (although Commodore should have come up with better drivers).
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Re: What if ?
« Reply #33 on: October 19, 2006, 08:24:41 PM »
If we're talking about what we'd like to see added/altered in the amiga chipset should it be released now, then i'd think that a handheld device would be a pretty good target.

Or to put it another way. The GP2x only runs at 200Mhz, and the PSP is clock limited in software to 222MHz. So a 220Mhz Coldfire CPU and an upgraded AGA chipset + 3d hardware and you'dmhavea  great little portable gaming system.

It doesnt have to be powerful 3d hardware either. The PSPs gpu is utterly woeful, it doesn't even support multi-texturing, urgh.

No just add better chunky support as Dennis was saying he'd like to do to the MiniMig, a low-power portable gpu and a ColdFire CPU and there'd be a really desirable portable machine with all my favourite games on it... ah *off-in-fairytale-land*

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Re: What if ?
« Reply #34 on: October 24, 2006, 08:07:26 PM »
Hmm, my re- release of the A1200 wouldn't be a power horse but a nice home computer.

OS:AROS CF Edition for Coldfire mode/AmigaOS for plain old 68k mode
Proc: Coldfire V4e/V5? - early startup lets you select running Coldfire mode or loads up 680x0 emulator.
Chipset: FPGA - emulating AGA with added Akiko, early startup lets you de- select several enhancements: More Colours, higher resolutions, better sound,  or even going back to original AGA speed.
Misc: DVD-Rom, HD, integrated Ethernet, USB, DVI, RGB out, Toslink out.

That would be a nice one. My PC is much faster, but who cares?

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Re: What if ?
« Reply #35 on: October 24, 2006, 08:55:46 PM »
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The reason was compatibilty with hardware-banging software.  The AHI drivers weren't available until later (although Commodore should have come up with better drivers).

They had years to come up with a solution. There is always a workaround...
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Re: What if ?
« Reply #36 on: April 24, 2008, 12:39:22 AM »
hi, those ten items make my mouth water--if only--cheers. :crazy:
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Re: What if ?
« Reply #37 on: April 24, 2008, 08:12:21 AM »
68K CPU  @  4GHz (dreaming)

133 or DDR ram slots for up to 4 gigs of ram.
Memory controller to ad as much chipram as you want from the system ram. Or you can use the GFX cards ram as chipram.

PCI and Zorro II/III/IV slots...
PCIe slots and even a AGP for kicks...

Some circuits to "retarget" any hardware banging software, forcing it to use the installed GFX card.

USB, on board network, support for much larger kickstarts than 512 kb (perhaps a 2gig flash unit), SATA, fire wire, + anything else i can't think of....
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Re: What if ?
« Reply #38 on: April 24, 2008, 09:16:34 AM »
Nice old thread.  I think I've come full circle on this, expansion of the old Amiga to modern standards just doesn't cut it anymore. One of the reasons I've wanted AROS ported to ARM is for GP2X.  Running "Populous" on a GP2X would be sweet.

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Re: What if ?
« Reply #39 on: April 24, 2008, 09:40:58 AM »
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Running "Populous" on a GP2X would be sweet.

You already can. UAE runs really well on the GP2X.

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Re: What if ?
« Reply #40 on: April 24, 2008, 10:02:46 AM »
@leirbag28

would any of that run a reasonable sequencer. i need more power...

"Nice old thread. I think I've come full circle on this, expansion of the old Amiga to modern standards just doesn't cut it anymore. One of the reasons I've wanted AROS ported to ARM is for GP2X. Running "Populous" on a GP2X would be sweet."

the genesis emulator i use on psp (haven't tried it on gp2x.) is better than uae...
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Re: What if ?
« Reply #41 on: April 24, 2008, 11:54:13 AM »
CPU sockets on the low end models would have been nice. With a RAM socket. I would pay extra for them features.
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Re: What if ?
« Reply #42 on: April 24, 2008, 12:30:00 PM »
Firewire, USB, dvd burner, pci and pci-e (or possibly agp) so we could stick a modern grapnics card in it.


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