Classic Amiga Hardware Projects for 2014

[Drummerboy]

Any External PCMCIA CD/DVD for A600/A1200

[gertsy]

Sign me up to the 68060 with SATA and 128 Mb ��
Adaptors for A1200, 2000 CPU and 4000 CPU slot would be great.
With frys and a coke.

Thanks.

[Comi]

Matey Prometheus - new batch for A3000/4000..colaboration (licence) and version for A1200
Ultimate PPC board for A3000/4000 also in colaboration with AmigaKit/A-Eon and Ultimate PPC developers, later A1200 version

[wawrzon]

Matey Prometheus - new batch for A3000/4000..colaboration (licence) and version for A1200

http://www.a1k.org/forum/showthread.php?p=693439&posted=1#post693439

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Ultimate PPC board for A3000/4000 also in colaboration with AmigaKit/A-Eon and Ultimate PPC developers, later A1200 version

waste of effort.

[utri007]

Cheapest possible Zorro II / III graphics card. It would any way be much faster than any other zorro graphics card produced to zorro. As a reference GVP-M sold all Spectrum board they produced couble years ago.

[matt3k]

Cheapest possible Zorro II / III graphics card. It would any way be much faster than any other zorro graphics card produced to zorro. As a reference GVP-M sold all Spectrum board they produced couble years ago.

I agree with the video card for the zorro bus, but I would like to see some benefits as opposed to the used video card market.  Pass through and DVI/HDMI output and being faster than the Picasso IV and Cybervision 64, would be a great starting point.

I would be willing to spend 200-300 USD on a great auto sensing Z-Bus video card with the items above.  IMHO, there are are a lots of video cards available to the Amiga now in the used market and many big box Amiga have video cards.  If it didn't provide a benefit, I wouldn't replace any of the video cards I use now...

[duga]

PSU replacement for A500/600/1200. Standard connector but at least 5 amps or more (no fans).


A1200 desktop chassis replacement:

• Using external PC-keyboard via Lyra 2-adapter (avoiding the problem with aging keyboards and broken flat cables)
• Slot for slim fit DVD
• Slot for VGA/DVI-connector (Indivision AGA)
• Slot for two USB ports
• Slot for optional case fan (for those with 040/060)
• Slots for all existing A1200 ports

With no internal keyboard it should take slightly less space than the standard chassis. Something like http://oldcomputers.net/pics/c128d.jpg or A1000.

[Christian Johansson]

RAM-card, NIC and MicroSDinterface, software is missing for the two later.

GPL'ed

https://github.com/endofexclusive/greta

[Everblue]

What about a run of Amiga desktop cases? A500/A600/A1200 and perhaps C64 as well.

[TCMSLP]

Something like the Natami would meet all my requirements and expectations of a modern Amiga.  I guess a larger minimig or similar FPGA solution would cover most of this;  The ability to output modern graphics resolutions, faster memory bandwidth, network, USB etc.

[Iggy]

Something like the Natami would meet all my requirements and expectations of a modern Amiga.  I guess a larger minimig or similar FPGA solution would cover most of this;  The ability to output modern graphics resolutions, faster memory bandwidth, network, USB etc.

That approach would certainly make it easier to support some of the devices that have been mentioned.
DDR memory and SATA hard drives tied to a 68060?
I don't think any of you realize that the only practical way to do that would be with an FPGA.
So why retain the Amiga at that point?

[Djole]

I think we should stay realistic and dont dream about new batch of Amiga motherboards, 3d zorro gfx cards or even 060 accelerators. I THINK its out of Amigakit range. We should expect more modest HW like usb controllers, audio or maybe some sort of HW video decoder. I would also like to see a flashable Kickstart rom able to be customized from AOS if this is possible from HW side.

If Amigakit could invest in better soft cores to be used in possible future FPGA accelerators for classic, this could be very useful for the whole Amiga community. Aiming for Vampire 600 which is opensource and could be picked up and adjusted for other Amiga models, improved and sure would benefit from a better soft core.

There are a lot HW projects floating around, TINA, NATAMI under new unknown name with Apollo? soft core, other smaller projects like RAM expansions etc. Investing in those can ensure Amigakit a lot of new products.

Personally i would like to see tower conversion plates for A1200, flashable KS (like mentioned), some sort of cheap networking solution for a500, HW audio/video decoder, wireless mouse/joystick modules (lot of people keep their Amigas in the living room so the less cables the better), even restoration kits would sell (set of new caps, retrobright, new badges etc...). Maybe even a 3d printing service for small amiga plastic parts (floppy buttons?).

If we see any of the above I will be happy.

[Iggy]

Ah, a realist.
Although further faith placed in a Natami related product is probably a mistake.

On a new motherboard, an ATX form bare motherboard is not that unrealistic.

We could strip AGA based systems to build those.

[x56h34]

Ah, a realist.
Although further faith placed in a Natami related product is probably a mistake.

On a new motherboard, an ATX form bare motherboard is not that unrealistic.

We could strip AGA based systems to build those.

Sorry to redirect the subject of the thread a little bit, but what ever happened to the Natami project?

[Iggy]

Sorry to redirect the subject of the thread a little bit, but what ever happened to the Natami project?

When they seems to be realizing some fruits for their labor, it imploded.

While I respect Thomas and his goals, how anyone could have work with Gunnar that long is a mystery.

Hey, Mike's Replay board continues to gain steam.

[SamuraiCrow]

Sorry to redirect the subject of the thread a little bit, but what ever happened to the Natami project?

The developer of the SuperAGA chipset core was motivated primarily by learning to become a better developer.  Once he achieved that goal, he decided that he didn't want to participate further in the project so he rage quit and since the entire SuperAGA core was his only, anything he had done is no longer legally accessible to the rest of the team.

The other core of the NatAmi had its name changed.  The N68070 is now known as the Apollo core.  It is still being developed by Jens, Gunnar and several of the other team members.  The last I heard from them, they had developed an SIMD unit for it geared toward planar graphics and was in the process of making a simple planar graphics core to go with it with some added features.

There is also another hobby project on AmigaCoding.de that is being developed by Marcel Verdaasdonk (aka Veda) tentatively referred to as XCS.  It is more elaborate than the simple planar-only graphics core developed by the Apollo team.  It incorporates indexed chunky mode and byte-planar modes in both the deeper pipelined Blitter and display functions as well as caching and an eight-way multithreaded 32-bit Copper.  It is intended to be used with the Apollo CPU core and although Marcel was not an official part of the NatAmi team, he posted to the NatAmi forum regularly.

As a former member of the NatAmi team myself, I'm putting my lot in with Marcel as a documentation editor since American English is my native language and not his.  If all goes well, I'll come up with some AROS drivers to support his chipset core.  (In particular, I'm looking forward to being able to queue blit-nodes via one of the Coppers instead of tripping interrupts on the CPU every time the Blitter finishes its work.)