Classic Amiga Hardware Projects for 2014

[amiman99]

I'll vote for:
1. New affordable Graphics Card for big box Amigas 2/3/4000 (like Picasso)
2. New accelerator for A2/3/4000s, for the past year the A500/600/1200 got new stuff, but nothing for the big boys. Fast 040 or 060 with onboard memory would be best.

[hceline]

This:

I know this is an even bigger ask, but Amiga  motherboards aren't getting any younger.  Would it be possible to have a  new Amiga motherboard?

And the most logical solution to tha problem would be:

I don't have one Amiga at this point that doesn't have some kind of hardware quirk. It is time for a FPGA board solution to offer:
A) full AGA and classic chipset emulation
B) 32 bit capability
C) Upgrade path-

 somekind of upgrade path so that we can move away from vintage hardware and offer a reasonable amount of compatibility.
!

In my opinion.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Also not a hardware project but probably cheap to produce: how about some Amiga socks? C'mon, I do roller derby, us derby folk love to show off our socks, I'd order some for sure!

[B00tDisk]

What about an extended MiniMig with a few (3) PCI slots on it and mATX form factor?  Bang in a USB card and ethernet and an amiga-supported graphics card (Radeon PCI or Voodoo) and you'd have a nice little classic "productivity" system there.

'course you'd need a PCI controller solution and libraries, too, so this is probably impossible.

But!  If you guys made one I'd buy it for sure

[darksun9210]

really really need an Ethernet option for A500 - or just a re-run of subway/clockport USB cards...

also, with low profile cards these days, maybe a Zorro3 card that has an inline PCI or PCI-e slot in a low profile card sized cut out for mounting an Ethernet/usb/firewire/gfx card?

kinda like the way the original x-surf mounted its ISA nic card, but only the user can plug in what they want...

or maybe replacement A3k/A4k card risers with PCI/PCIe slots onboard?

or.... blank 040/060 accelerator cards, user supplies their own cpu? 1/2gig soldered on ram, CF slot, "fast slot" to run a ribbon to the PCI/PCIe riser?

dsp audio card? lots of 16bit audio channels with no CPU usage?

pies and skys shoot for the stars, you might get the moon

[SaruwatariKaito]

I would like to see an Amiga 1200 Tower Case, similar design to the X1000.

[AAACHIPSET]

As you know, AmigaKit.com has been reinvesting revenue back into the Classic Amiga hardware market for some years.  In previous years we have produced/financed projects such as AmigaOS 4.1 Classic, ZorRAM, MAS Player Evolution, Automatic Joystick Switcher, Arcade Evolution Joystick and others.   We also have helped A-EON Technology with the new Prisma Megamix Sound Card.

This year we are looking to do the same.  What Classic Amiga hardware or software do you want to be developed?  If it is realistic and commercial, we will consider it.

my a1200  almost full inside  ..would  hopefully  be able to get a new sound card ..though i guess ill settle for a mas player  ...what id really like is a cpu upgrade to a new model of a ppc board  with a back up 040/060 ..these chips  should be a lot cheaper now  so it may be feasible ..if still expensive ..to suggest a totally wild idea ..how about a updated version of the classic  operating system that runs on 68k chips ..3.9  is not that much of a jump from 3.1  ..a 68k version of os4 be nice ..with all the networking  included ..just a thought

[JohnFante]

Commercial-level distribution of one of those automatic RTG/native video switchers that some of the a1k.org folks have developed would be great, essentially offering passthrough for all those RTG boards that don't support it (CVPPC, Mediator, etc)

One of theese would be great. All configured with the right cables/adaptors/brackets so that it switches autmaticly from a Indivision with DVI and a Voodoo/Radeon with d-sub/DVI.

[lost_loven]

scsi sd card adapter
not a scsi to a ide to sd but just something simple, scsi to sd.
lost

[Bennymee]

A SATA Zorro2/3 card would be good to use new hardrives and it is more reality then a 68060/FPGA accelerator or even an PPC accelerator.

[mrmoonlight]

Happy New Year Amigakit  any thing for my A1200 please, best wishes Brian/

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Natami was a dream, Minimig is great...

Natami was the only "post-classic" Amiga system that I was ever really excited about.  There we go, since we're asking for the sky, why not just pick up whatever the pieces of Natami were and complete that project?  :lol:

On a side note, it's interesting how many things on this list that people are asking for already exist.  Maybe in some cases it's just a matter of "connecting sellers to buyers", i.e., making the interested party aware of the product.  This could be done perhaps on some level by AmigaKit picking up marketing/distribution for products that (for example) are only available on Amibay or those German A1K forums.  In other cases it seems like just churning out another production run of already existing hardware.  For products that have been designed/manufactured within the past decade that shouldn't be too hard to accomplish, right?  :lol:

[lionstorm]

Definitely a zorro 3 usb card. More denebs ?

+1 here for more Deneb and Subway at an affordable price !

a nice extra would be a new gfx card but who will do the 2d-3d driver then, now the warp3D 68k is abandonned ?

[Linde]

I'd really love to see this turn into a product: http://lallafa.de/blog/amiga-projects/plipbox/. It doesn't seem unrealistic, and an easy way to get ethernet to Amigas that don't have the PCMCIA port that are otherwise unexpanded.

[Faerytale]

A new classic motherboard fore a500 case with all bells & whistles! USB,Scandoubler,NIC Super-AGA.
PM me when i can order!

[motrucker]

Merry Christmas Amigakit. I wish you guys the best.
How 'bout almost anything (ethernet, USB, RAM, SATA) that is zorro 2 compatible. I know some of this exists, but I have feeling you could do better, and make it easier to buy. A lot of us still use A2000 machines.