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

[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

[ByteRyder]

What we need is a full compatible AGA chipset upgrade like SuperAGA.

[Hattig]

What we need is a full compatible AGA chipset upgrade like SuperAGA.

I don't think that would make a spare time project!

[Plaz]

Was NatAmi project making any progress on that? I've not been following closely.

Plaz

[kolla]

I need something simple, a sort of breakout board for A1200/A600 mobos, with connectors that fit the ATX "window" of the 3 supermicro rackable cases I have.

[Hattig]

Was NatAmi project making any progress on that? I've not been following closely.

Plaz

It doesn't look good, in my opinion.

Still, the FPGAArcade is coming soon, and should be affordable, especially in comparison with the NatAmi.

[amiga-penn-wchester]

Super AGA chipset, improved but backward compatible audio, on the software side, something better than 3.1 and more in the lean Amiga tradition.

[ByteRyder]

Well, if you look to it marketwise a SuperAGA board would sell thousands of units.

[kedawa]

A simple CD32 expansion with RGB video output and keyboard port.

[VingtTrois]

A simple CD32 expansion with RGB video output and keyboard port.

+1


A new Sound card for all AMIGAs (inserted on PAULA?): 4 to 128 channels!

[Hattig]

+1
A new Sound card for all AMIGAs (inserted on PAULA?): 4 to 128 channels!

I wonder if Paula, or a Paula-derivative, is the best model for a future sound card for classic Amigas?

If it was a good model, and capabilities were easily extended (more channels, higher bitrates, deeper sample depths, etc), then I guess an FPGA would be the best route. Which makes me wonder about a generic FPGA card for the Amiga, one that could be programmed on the fly (by the host Amiga even) to become whatever hardware you wanted it to be, whether that's a 16 channel Paula, or a simple RTG card, or a mixture. I/Os would be an issue - to be a sound card you need audio outputs, to be a video card you need a VGA/HDMI output, to be a USB card you want USB outputs...

[VingtTrois]

Just imagine PROTRACKER with 128 channels, 16 Indivision and 16 LCD Screens!