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.