Questions for you (amiga-project)

[AmiDelf]

I thank you all for your contribution to this project. Let the answeres roll inn.

At this time, I am creating a team. If your interested in this project and wants to help out, send me a PM here on www.amiga.org

We need people who/wich knows hardware very well, people with contacts, people who would love to give this project a hand.

And again. Thanks for your contribution. In the end. On Sunday evening, this questions will be taken tougether and reveal what this project is aiming at.

Regards,
Michal, www.amigaworld.org

[seer]

@AmiDelf

Nice intro page on your website AmiDelf, but looking at it the Amiga NeXT does look a bit.. off..

How about Amiga Lorraine  ? Or just Lorraine  :-D

[Karlos]

@Amidelf

I don't want you to take this the wrong way, but what's the obsession with the PowerVR chipset? It's yesterdays news dude. Sure the tile rendering was a neat idea, but hardware has moved on and the memory bandwidth issue that tile rendering addressed (quite neatly) is no longer an issue.

Go for an AGP solution, IMHO.

[downix]

@Karlos

Actually it still is an issue, as ATI and nVidia have spent a lot of silicon trying to by-pass PowerVR's patents on the process.  nVidia bought 3Dfx just for 3Dfx's patent for a similar process, which is used in today's 5900FX.

But none of them are as good as PVR's technique, well worth investigating as the PVR just lacks a few functions to be turned into a modern day competitor.  (you're comparing 4-pipeline solutions running at 300Mhz+ with a 1-pipeline solution running at 133Mhz, imagine if you superscale the PVR and ramped up the clock speed)

[Acill]

While I think it would be cool to see another Amiga out I fail to see why we would need or wand yet another Amiga like system released at a time like this. Why split into a third group? Why not just design a card for the AmigaOne with the PVR chip and write some good working drivers?

[bloodline]

AmiDelf wrote:
I thank you all for your contribution to this project. Let the answeres roll inn.

At this time, I am creating a team. If your interested in this project and wants to help out, send me a PM here on www.amiga.org

We need people who/wich knows hardware very well, people with contacts, people who would love to give this project a hand.

And again. Thanks for your contribution. In the end. On Sunday evening, this questions will be taken tougether and reveal what this project is aiming at.

Regards,
Michal, www.amigaworld.org

There are two ways to look at AmiDelf's ideas...

1. He wants an upagraded Clasic Amiga.
2. He wants to build a NextGen machine.

But:-

1. No point, Amiga Hardware is dead, and we have two PPC solutions already (not to mention the countless x86 systems one could use with AROS or emualtion.)

2. That's cool, but then why is he looking at old hardware? He should be thiking about Cell based architectures, ie future technologies. And he would need pots of cash for that or a really good idea.


Which is it?