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Originally Posted by E-Penguin
Seeing how good emulation is these days; how about an interface board for an off-the-shelf ITX board, offering various Amiga i/o ports & slots, and the rest is done in winuae.
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You need an FPGA solution to support the various ports and in particular the Zorro slots. WinUAE (or any other UAE) is not timing-accurate so it could only work with timing-insensitive ports like the joy ports. Windows (or a regular Linux) is not a realtime OS, so you don't have any guarantee that your process will be able to respond in time.
This is where FPGAs are useful. Here you control everything basically down to hardware-level so in theory you could almost make a 1:1 copy of all the digital parts of a genuine Amiga, provided you have the chip schematics or are able to create them through reverse engineering. You have the entire FPGA to yourself and do not have to fight the OS or other processes for CPU time.
