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Sure it would.. but at what cost... ;-)
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seeing what some die hard amiga fans having been paying for 20 year old Cyberstorm PPC cards (that basically have half the processing power of an overclocked Celeron 300, money doesn't seem to be an issue. ;^)
*I am not an engineer, so be kind when responding to the following*
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The main issue is the decoding of video or image data, and in the case of web pages, rendering the page and compiling &
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I thought this would be the main issue, so use a H.265 decoder sitting next to an ethernet chip combined with a cheap ARM CPU with 2-8GB of ram to do some work and buffering. Just let the Zorro bus see what it needs to see to keep the OS happy. Yes it's basically another computer on card, but that's not new. You could send all the video packets to the decoder, reencode (maybe to mpeg2, or even crazier, HAM6 AVI would even make it look like the amiga is doing the work) and stuff the data back in packets that fit in the bus bandwidth and finally output to a video card. Yes would be a pricey card (refer back to first comment) but playing lemmings while Monty Python and the Holy Grail streams off of Netflix in another window and not being nagged for a new Windows update or antivirus db patch would be worth every penny. What's more it would work with the new generation computers (that incorporate a Zorro bus).
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...BUT someone crazy enough might think of something wildly out of the box just to prove a point..
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love that statement. Names like Jay Miner and Tim Jenison and those vampire dudes immediately come to mind. Crazy amiga guys are out there.
What's crazy is that the amiga community is seemingly just now realizing that the internet IS the killer app. It's not SYSINFO or AIBB or Lightwave 3.5FP, guys. You use it on your phone, your tablet, your PC, your TV, your Xbox, your PS3/4 but not your much beloved Amiga...