NatAmi... The New Future Of Amiga...

[Cammy]

The Natami MX is Mini-ITX standard, except it's even smaller. It will fit in any Mini-ITX PC case and a bunch of other cases, most likely a Dreamcast too. It's 17cm x 14cm, so being shorter than a standard Mini-ITX motherboard it has even more chances of fitting inside a modified Amiga case too.

[Khephren]

Oh lord.  "CRTs are better!  Put it in a wedge case!"

Jesus, why not just seal it in a 20lb block of epoxy and make it only hook up to zenith console sets while you're at it?

I'd love to have one, but only if they offer bare boards I can put in a case and connect to a monitor of my choosing.

jesus I don't think any of us were saying MUST be a wedge, MUST be a crt. Get a grip man!

And a CRT will give you a much better picture for old school games built to work on CRT TV's originaly. Artists specifically use the phosphor glow to blend the colours, but you knew that anyway, so i'm going to take one off your troll score for that

[B00tDisk]

jesus I don't think any of us were saying MUST be a wedge, MUST be a crt. Get a grip man!

And a CRT will give you a much better picture for old school games built to work on CRT TV's originaly. Artists specifically use the phosphor glow to blend the colours, but you knew that anyway, so i'm going to take one off your troll score for that

I don't give a crap about the "glow of phosphors"; burning reactor cores give off a lovely soft blue glow, and I'm not going to go stare the RBMK-1000 core at Chernobyl in the face

I also don't give a fig for "old school games"*, I've had WinUAE for that for what, nearly a decade now?  Show me what new things can be done with this new hardware.


*=and I never cared for platformers, side-scrollers or other nonsense anyway: I'm a driving and flight sim guy.

[Khephren]

Not interested in reactor core glow either...but heard a lot of russian speccy fans have gone bald and grown extra hands

Sadly, hardware needs developers...this could be the problem, your right. Ten years ago, we might have been all right,now?...I don't know so much.

I mean, I have a N900 phone, GPU, loads of RAM etc...but just getting ports. I think Acorn Achimedes had the same problem.

As for UAE, yeah I use it a lot too, even use it at work.
But on games night on a friday, it's nice getting the old girl out for a play (the A1200 that is..) And a damn site easier to clean up than lugging my PCtower down to the concervatory (and no, I won't let the bunch of drunks I have round play UAE on the laptop....just think spillage)

[kolla]

I'm guessing here, but I think Toni got MMU in WinUAE from the Aranym project, the Atari ST/Falcon emulator, that again got m68k emulation from UAE.

[commodorejohn]

Oh lord.  "CRTs are better!  Put it in a wedge case!"

Jesus, why not just seal it in a 20lb block of epoxy and make it only hook up to zenith console sets while you're at it?

Dude, I wasn't trying to prescribe anything - just offering my opinion. Besides, unless they decide to build it with an integrated monitor for no conceivable reason, who would care what any individual hooked it up to?

Now I want to hook it up to an old Zenith just to spite you ;P

Sadly, hardware needs developers...this could be the problem, your right. Ten years ago, we might have been all right,now?...I don't know so much.

Hardware can draw developers to it, though. If the AROS68k port keeps progressing as it has been, that'll give the NatAmi a leg up on the software thing and hopefully generate some interest in developing for it, and I think/hope Franko is right about it becoming a new standard target, though that will depend largely on how affordable it turns out to be.

[Khephren]

Hardware can draw developers to it, though. If the AROS68k port keeps progressing as it has been, that'll give the NatAmi a leg up on the software thing and hopefully generate some interest in developing for it, and I think/hope Franko is right about it becoming a new standard target, though that will depend largely on how affordable it turns out to be.

That's what i'm hoping C=john. I think it might get a bit more interest than we are expecting, and not just from Amigans/lapsed Amigans.

[arttu80]

To me it looks like some very fun & interesting time are ahead for the Amiga and for first time since 1994 things in Amigaland look promising...

I can only agree on that too!  And I personally would care if they put a nice unique "Amiga only" cover on that pretty mobo. Even colorchoices for black or white plastic would be cool.

[wawrzon]

so now this commodore-amiga firm could go, remake and release some a4k keyboards that one could stick into a standard minitx case. seems they are good at things like that, and it might even give them some actual return. ;]

[commodorejohn]

The Natami MX is Mini-ITX standard, except it's even smaller. It will fit in any Mini-ITX PC case and a bunch of other cases, most likely a Dreamcast too. It's 17cm x 14cm, so being shorter than a standard Mini-ITX motherboard it has even more chances of fitting inside a modified Amiga case too.

Hmm, and I just found this project...this looks doable, I might have to try it when I get a NatAmi

[giZmo350]

I know this is not do-able - but it would be cool!

[Khephren]

it's a miniATX board isn't it? i'll hunt some down tommorow. NatAmi has been around for years....but iv'e now decided to allow the 'get excited' button to be pressed

[nicholas]

That's what i'm hoping C=john. I think it might get a bit more interest than we are expecting, and not just from Amigans/lapsed Amigans.

Atari and X68000 people perhaps.

[Franko]

I reckon there must be plenty of coders lurking about that would love to start writing games/apps once again in 68000 Assembler...

If the NatAmi sets the new basic standard for the Amiga then the possibilities are endless for the emergence of new or even just updated software. I just hope enough units can be made and sold to kindle a revival in the world of Amiga once again...

Who knows if the NatAmi becomes popular enough perhaps it might see some interest from some big investors and then things could really take of in Amigaland once again, only time will tell but things are looking pretty damn good for the first time in years...

[commodorejohn]

Who knows if the NatAmi becomes popular enough perhaps it might see some interest from some big investors and then things could really take of in Amigaland once again, only time will tell but things are looking pretty damn good for the first time in years...

I wouldn't get your hopes set on that just yet; I'd be happy enough if it sees a modest-size production run with the N68050. Still, you never know

[Franko]

I wouldn't get your hopes set on that just yet; I'd be happy enough if it sees a modest-size production run with the N68050. Still, you never know

If I believe or hope in something I never give up on that hope or dream no matter how long it may take, heck I waited 30 years just to see The Specials in concert once again and that happened in 2009, I spent 30 years trying to track down an old school mate of mine and that happened last summer...

Only thing is, I don't have another 30 years left to wait on the NatAmi, but I can still dream & hope as good things come to those who wait in the end (or 30 years later as it would seem) ...

As you say, you never know...