If an EE/Circuit card/programmer designer came up to you at work...

[stevee617]

and said, "I need a project...think of something."

Give me some ideas...think of it as a feasibility study.

[som99]

Well I humor you and neglect what I think about the "EE/Circuit card/programmer designer" and write what I want. Sure a Accelerator card would be nice, but why not just give him the schematics for the A4000T and tell him to improve some parts and "make it happen".
Since I would love an 4000T board.

I can supply you with both schematics and functional specifications of the A4000T.

You can give them to him and see what he says for fun, even tho it won't happen

Ask him where he will get all components

[bloodline]

I've been pondering building an A1200 trapdoor slot to SPI bridge of some sort for a while... That would basically make the A1200 an SPI slave... Which would allow us to hook up a wide variety of cheap, but powerful embedded CPUs... I have a mind to get one of those $8 200Mhz ARM M4s in my A1200!!!

[jorkany]

At a car show in Daytona I once met a guy who put a 427 hemi into an old VW Bug. With enough money almost anything is possible. I don't see a lot of old Bugs going around with 427 hemis in them though even though I know one was made.

http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=3705

[weirdami]

Howabout something to go in that mysterious empty space under the disk drive in an A1200?

[som99]

Howabout something to go in that mysterious empty space under the disk drive in an A1200?

What do you want to put on poor old Lisa?

[slaapliedje]

I vote for having him help out the UltimatePPC project!  http://ultimateppc.nl/

slaapliedje

[paul1981]

I'd like a joystick/port switcher.

[stevee617]

n/t

[weirdami]

What do you want to put on poor old Lisa?

Is that what that was for? All I remember is wondering why there was a door in the back leading to an empty space and never hearing of any peripherals that go in there. Did they intend for people to do Lisa mods?

[mongo]

Is that what that was for? All I remember is wondering why there was a door in the back leading to an empty space and never hearing of any peripherals that go in there. Did they intend for people to do Lisa mods?

The door is generally used for an external SCSI connector on an accelerator board.

[som99]

Is that what that was for? All I remember is wondering why there was a door in the back leading to an empty space and never hearing of any peripherals that go in there. Did they intend for people to do Lisa mods?

Im not sure we are talking about he same empty space. I was only making fun of the hole in the drive cage :O
Lets tell our random "EE/Circuit card/programmer designer" to complete the AAA chipset

[Plaz]

So just going to design it, or actually actually build it?
Low expectation "do-able" project with available documentation ... updated remake the 040 card for the 3000/4000.

Pie-in-the-sky project.... dual coldfire card. First coldfire runs the JIT compiler too manage CF unfriendly 68K code... feeds results to second coldfire that replaces the 68K.

Other than that I'm looking forward to UltimatePPC.

Plaz

[commodorejohn]

Is there any reason an accelerator couldn't be designed using a low-cost, fairly high-clock ARM or other microcontroller to run an emulated 680x0 with high-speed onboard RAM (as the first PPC Macs essentially did?) That'd be nifty.

[bloodline]

Is there any reason an accelerator couldn't be designed using a low-cost, fairly high-clock ARM or other microcontroller to run an emulated 680x0 with high-speed onboard RAM (as the first PPC Macs essentially did?) That'd be nifty.

That exactly why I want an SPI bridge