Put more simply, had commodore realeased both the A1200 and the falcon (running AmigaOS of course, possibly with a cost option for ECS compatibility)... I would have opted for the Falcon... How about you?
Well, I nearly bought a Falcon instead of my first accelerator card, so I guess I was always a bit on the fence. I'd have absolutely no qualms with an AROS based Falcon / CT060
All things being equal, if we're talking ideals here, I would have preferred an A1200 with at least a SIMM slot on the motherboard, even if it only took a maximum 4MB (for PCMCIA friendliness) with the 020 clocked directly from the motherboard's 28MHz signal, rather than 14. Of course, that might actually have made it a bit faster than some of their big box 030/25MHz machines. It would have been nice if it had some chunky support, even if it was just hardware C2P and not a framebuffer.
Speaking of which, the Akiko's C2P was another massive let-down. Instead of writing 8 32-bit words of chunky data to it and reading it back as 8 32-bit words of planar data then pushing that to your Chip RAM, it should have had 8 address registers that you set up to point to your planes and then write to it and it writes the planar data to those addresses (incrementing as it goes). At worst, you'd need to reset the pointers once per scanline, or more likely once per frame. You might have some wait states whilst it's busy but a properly constructed loop could always find some other useful stuff to do whilst the hardware was converting/writing.
