The natami looks very close to completion.

[Hell Labs]

http://www.natami.net/knowledge.php?b=1¬e=11215&x=16

Or at least, booting. I'm surprised, after months and years of hearing only small things, they've started posting a checklist which is getting done really fast. I have to wonder, will they have a working product for us to buy before or after the x1000? What do you think?

[ElPolloDiabl]

This for a lot of reasons, including the fact they've had quite headstart over the X1000.
Unless of course the Natami crew took out a million dollar loan with Atari and it's due to be repaid.

[desiv]

Good to see updates like that..

Although I think you're being a bit liberal with the use of the word "booting."  :-)

desiv

[Hell Labs]

Good to see updates like that..

Although I think you're being a bit liberal with the use of the word "booting."  :-)

desiv

"The natami looks very close to booting."

What's wrong with that sentence?

[desiv]

"The natami looks very close to booting."

What's wrong with that sentence?

Nothing "wrong" with it.  Just depends on your definition of "close" I suppose.

I'm glad to see the progress.  But from that and the checklist, I can't tell if that means days, weeks, or months from actual booting...  Just that they are making good progress, which I applaud.

desiv

[Louis Dias]

This for a lot of reasons, including the fact they've had quite headstart over the X1000.
Unless of course the Natami crew took out a million dollar loan with Atari and it's due to be repaid.

The original board was delivered in Sept.  There was a problem and they change the memory and memory controller and that was finished in Dec, irc.  So, once the board became functional again, then the individual component implementation and testing began.

So it's natural to see more progress since January.  This is to be a 68K machine as is not in competition with the X1000.  It's also not designed to be more of an emulation platform like the Replay/FPGArcade board.  This board is design to be an A5000+.  Evolutionary, not revolutionary.

As you have seen from the Replay board, faster memory access can make the system perform better and with DDR2 burst mode fully implemented as well as double the cache of previous 68K cpus before it, it will be quite responsive.

If you still think it's vapor, then by all means don't click the link posted above, lest you want your propaganda be quelled.

[trekiej]

I hope it does come out.
3 layers classic
3 layers next gen.

[swift240]

I wonder how much it will cost?

[kolla]

I'm confused - where's Piru?

[Piru]

I'm confused - where's Piru?

Watching breakpoint stream. Amiga 64k compo should be on pretty much right now.

Anyway. As far as I can remember text is rendered via CPU. Also, "implemented" is far from tested and working.

Blah... just 3 enties in the compo.

Anyway, natami is far more ambitious than just booting the amigaos. Just doing that is trivial and is well doable.

[wawrzon]

the basic functionality might be reached soon after the full amiga like blitter is in but this is as piru remarked far from the project completion. anyways it is progressing despite multiple claims it will never work.

[Lando]

If you'd asked me 6 months ago, I'd have bought one of these in a flash.  But now, with the recent advances of the AGA Minimig with 50MB RAM.... it's a coin toss.

[persia]

It does do an OK guru, but I prefer the original...

[xyzzy]

Buy the RetroReplay board if you want to play with lots of different cores, or get the Natami if you want a dedicated system with PCI slots and other useful interfaces.

Or get both

[gertsy]

I wonder how much it will cost?

No more than a Sherlock Holmes remake with Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, and just as likely.

Gertsy