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Re: Natami started and stopped again
« Reply #104 from previous page: August 12, 2014, 09:24:41 PM »
So Natami.net has disappeared. No great loss imo, too much hot air is bad for the ozone layer...:laugh1:

Still; I guess this means that everyone involved gave up waiting for Thomas's new Amiga system; as implied by the new name and new website banners that appeared on natami.net about 6 months ago? Or should we expect a new website?

At this point I am waiting to see if Gunnar can pull off the apollo board for my a500; if not then no biggie; something else will materialise sooner or later. At least gunnars board looks close to being ready and I hope he can do it.
 

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Re: Natami started and stopped again
« Reply #105 on: August 13, 2014, 07:43:11 PM »
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It was more than one or two.  I balked too when I found out the NatAmi MX might cost as much as a SAM.  That said, I've learned second-hand that Thomas Hirsch is still working on a new NatAmi.

About the Apollo accelerators, there's a locked thread about them on EAB.  Gunnar posted there that the accelerator boards will have FPGA usable HDMI and Ethernet ports on them.  The idea that some Amiga chipset core with graphics card features will use the HDMI port is very likely.

This is the first I have read about anyone with direct knowledge of what Thomas Hirsch is working on right now, so thanks for that bit of info.  I can understand how many people became worried about the cost of the NatAmi MX board, if it could not be cost reduced by increasing the volume of boards to be produced and it looked like it was going to cost as much as the SAM boards, but there were probably hundreds, if not thousands of users who would have gladly paid that price to get a working NatAmi MX system.  If some new design can incorporate all, or most of the features of the NatAmi MX board at a much cheaper price, and that is what Thomas Hirsch is working on, he will surely be able to sell many boards to all the former NatAmi hopefuls, if most or all of the features that were announced previously for the NatAmi are implemented.  The same should happen for the soon to be released Apollo accelerator boards, as there still seems to be strong interest in Amiga 68k.

It is too bad that the Apollo developers and Thomas Hirsch aren't working together any longer, as they could probably get things done faster if they were working on one project, instead of two different ones that appear to be very similar.

I am waiting to hear from Gunnar on the progress for the Apollo boards and I wonder how the production costs are going to be funded to get those boards manufactured and into the hands of us buyers.  Maybe a Kickstarter project would work?
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Re: Natami started and stopped again
« Reply #106 on: August 13, 2014, 08:21:16 PM »
Perhaps a kickstarter or even a simple pre-order system could work for the opollo boards.
Apparently Majista had 400 orders for the vampire 600 board. He was not able to fulfill these.

Gunnars board should surely do the same or better in numbers.

Natami.net is gone and yet to be replaced with the mooted new website; perhaps the new site will appear soon. It would be nice to think so but I am not investing in the idea this time around. I will observe and wait to see the outcome. I think there is much to be proven and alot of people who got burned by the previous Natami hyperbole will not be so easily convinced this time.