The most ambitious hardware proposal ever... UAU (wow)

[Dr_Righteous]

@billt

Hmm, I never knew the GREX 4000D existed... I'd only ever seen the one for the Blizzard. Excellent! Now I know what to save my pennies for. Then of course comes the real trick... Finding one someone'd part with.

PS: I remember that Outer Limits episode... Spooky as f&%$!

[Jeff]

Here ya go. These don't show up often :-).

http://cgi.ebay.com/G-rex-PCI-4000D-PCI-for-Amiga-4000-A4000_W0QQitemZ8730981124QQcategoryZ4598QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[MskoDestny]

billt wrote:
@MskoDestny

Someone needs to implement the basic Amiga chipset in FPGA and build a new system around that.

BoXeR tried and failed, and they had a good bit of money involved.

One failure doesn't make it an impossible task and from what I understand the failure was largely a business one. From what I've read there were more or less finished prototypes put together.

At this point, with OS4 no longer relying on the classic chipset, why must it be present at all?

There's still a group of people that don't see these "new Amigas" as "real" Amigas. These new PPC based machines are pretty generic and for some people it was the unique combination of the OS AND the hardware that made the Amiga special. An improved AGA might not be the most practical audio and video solution, but the current Amiga market is hardly about being practical.

At the very least trying to put together a new classic system can't be any more silly than trying to shoehorn new accelerators that practically include a whole new computer into 10+ year old classic hardware.

I wish Troika would rename theirs to something unique)

They have. It's called the Amy 05 now or something like that.

[Dr_Righteous]

I will say this... I'm a hardware guy. I like hardware. Software to me is simply instructions telling the hardware to do something cool.

When software talks to other software to translate the instructions to do something cool into something the hardware can understand, then it's sucking up my CPU time... Thus the whole point of the custom chipset in the first place: to take the load off the CPU.

Why do any of us own an Amiga at all? Why not just stick with UAE and toss out that old outdated machine? Simple, we're hardware junkies.

I want an Amiga. I don't want emulation. OS4 is great... A great step forward. But I'd rather run it on a CSPPC than an A1.

I'm sick enough to want a G5/060 accellerator. Or G5/ColdFire w/ the missing instructions routed to a PLD containing them.

No choice but to emulate? Fine, do it with a programable piece of hardware.

I am a hardware junkie.