A silly idea: is possible build a board for Pegasos (or PC) wich have old Amiga chipset (AGA/OCS, Paula, M68000...), so it can run older Amiga program wich require chipset support?
Something like PPC board for Amiga 1200/3000/4000, this time for Pegasos

Altrough UAE works well (and is a better economic solution ), I think should pretty fun have some old hardware on our new machine...

[ Edited by artickfox on 2005/10/18 18:23 ]

And with this one, there are three...

...Three strange requests from you. Did you subscribe for it?


E sono tre...

Tre strane richieste da parte tua, Incomincio a domandarmi se hai l'abbonamento.

To be short about your requests:

Some time ago, there was a PCI card for all Intel based PC. It featured a SHRINKED Amiga and all mounted on a single expansion card.
Sure it used "cannibalized" original Amiga Chips and CPU (original chips needed), but seems to me it did never proved to be functioning neither it was seen on the market.

If it was a "real" product, sure it could be used even on AmigaONE and Pegasos using good drivers to pilote it.

But such a device it will be:

1) Expensive

2) Unuseful

3) It occupies precious PCI expansion slot.

4) Old Amiga emulation situation is actually is very stable and UAE programs work very well.
Again, UAE is also very stable. Maintaners and programmers of WINUAE are known to be perfectionists and they work very carefully.

5) On Pegasos you could run old Amiga software flawlessly if the programs are RTG.

6) Programs which emulates Amigachipset (or performs same capabilities) are being working on, and are already available such as Paula Emulator, and Geronto-library. Try to download and install them.

Sure it could be more more and very useful a UNIVERSAL graphic card (with EGA, VGA, XGA, HDTV, DVT-B, Archimedes, Atari, Amiga graphic modes, with Mpeg 1 to 4 and DVD coding, deconding, and with full 3D OpenGL, MESA, Direct-X), if only Jeri Ellsworth could work at it, as I described to you into the thread you launched about C=One.

Ciao,

RAF

P.S.: Non spammare troppo. Pensa bene agli argomenti che vuoi lanciare e informati prima in rete se puoi trovare da altre fonti le info che cerchi. atlrimenti qualcuno potrebbe lamentarsi.

Hi ;-D

This was projected some time ago by Access Innovations.
It was called Insideout, and it was a PCI card with
680x0 (040-060) CPU and uprated AGA chipset.

http://www.snowcrash.u-net.com/amiga/nga_spci.html
http://amiga.emugaming.com/inside.html

Unfortunately, it didn´t get into production for the
masses.

I have a stranger idea.. Look towards the future and think of cool new designs!


For example, I like to read old Jay Miner interviews where he talks about interesting new technology. Here are some quotes from him:


"We originally did the chips using the NMOS process which has much higher current consumption than the state of the art CMOS. I'm surprised that Commodore haven't re-designed the chips in CMOS which is the big stumbling block to bringing out a portable. We did that because at the time, CMOS was much slower than NMOS and not as reliable. It's now much faster, so why are Commodore still using NMOS for some of their chips?" from *here*

There was another interview with Jay Miner which has an interesting comment made by him on
*video ram*



Anyways, my point here being that looking back and remembering the greatness of Amiga and its capabilities is also helped by looking at things the original designer was looking at for future designs.

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It seems really a nice piece of hardware...

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I definately agree. Would have be awesome bundled with SCALA.


Would be interesting to see if the new Genesi EFIKA could be used for similar type application.

[ Edited by Darth_X on 2005/10/19 21:54 ]