Has Clone-A died?

[freqmax]

Ok, So it's work in progress and there will be annoucement when it's done. It's not aimed at nichemarkets like NatAmi and FPGA Arcade. And will attract new developers.

So it ought to be a more general solution that make it attractive for developers.

Question is if it's worth waiting for a product with an unknown release date, uknown price, and unknown functionality.

[Jope]

Question is if it's worth waiting for a product with an unknown release date, uknown price, and unknown functionality.

Heh.. Based on reading these Amiga web forums, apart from the unknown functionality part, that seems like your average day for an Amiga diehard? :-)

[digiflip]

Jens Has confirmed it is still alive but wont give details incase someone nicks his ideas. I think if its good might leave Natami on proverbial retail shelf and buy Clone-A for real Amiga computer and FPGA arcade for retro amiga.

[Jope]

Jens Has confirmed it is still alive but wont give details incase someone nicks his ideas. I think if its good might leave Natami on proverbial retail shelf and buy Clone-A for real Amiga computer and FPGA arcade for retro amiga.

I think I'll see if any of these make it to the market and decide if any of them suit my application and are worth my money then. :-)

[freqmax]

If Amiga want's to be on the edge. It better have memory protection. And something else that make it worthwhile to ditch an Intel core CPU at Gigahertz with Gigabytes of DRAM. And of course I/O interfaces to match like PCI-express.

I know the Intel architecture sucks rotten horse eggs (little endian, segments, cpuid, bus smartness). But instructions per second per dollar, it's hard to beat. And should one for example want to run an FPGA synthesiz. That software is x86 only asfaik.

[number6]

@thread

"Has Clone-A died?"

I guess not

Link courtesy @Shufflepuck from AW.

#6

[JimS]

@thread

"Has Clone-A died?"

I guess not

Link courtesy @Shufflepuck from AW.

#6

Talk about holding your cards close to your vest..... ;-)
Hope for Jen's sake that everyone hasn't bought a Replay before he gets to market with his "secret features".

[bloodline]

@thread

"Has Clone-A died?"

I guess not

Link courtesy @Shufflepuck from AW.

#6

Well that's nice to hear

[Lurch]

Clone-A *will be* an Amiga 500 (no ethernet, usb, pci, 256MB chipmem or whatever), while Natami will be something else. Different purposes, different goals.

256MB chip? Strange Amiga 500 you would have there :-)

[psxphill]

Talk about holding your cards close to your vest..... ;-)
Hope for Jen's sake that everyone hasn't bought a Replay before he gets to market with his "secret features".

It won't matter, his idea is so simple that Replay can support it. Maybe it won't be done properly, but not many people will care about that.
 
Otherwise if it really would take several man years to implement it, then talking about it now would be fine. Unless Jens thinks Clone-A won't be out in the next couple of years.
 

256MB chip? Strange Amiga 500 you would have there :-)

He was listing all the things Clone-A would not have.
 
"Clone-A *will be* an Amiga 500 (no ethernet, usb, pci, 256MB chipmem or whatever), "

[Lurch]

He was listing all the things Clone-A would not have.
 
"Clone-A *will be* an Amiga 500 (no ethernet, usb, pci, 256MB chipmem or whatever), "

I was being a little tongue in check, NVM :-)