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I think that's what the new low cost ACAs will provide. I just hope the cost of those is kept rather low, lower than ACA620 if possible.
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11 July 2015, 20:28 | #204 |
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Yes! Presumably the ACA1221(EC) just has the 14MHz 68EC020, thereby requiring no extra logic, just wire it straight to the bus.
I have often wondered why no accelerators run synchronously, for instance 28MHz 68030 or 56MHz 68060 &c... EDIT: oh and the revision history is interesting, too http://wiki.icomp.de/w/index.php?tit...934&oldid=3927 so now it WILL support: * original Amiga disk drives * clock port * parallel port Good news! Last edited by Mrs Beanbag; 11 July 2015 at 21:18. |
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How about DS0 and DS1 at the internal floppy header with the ready pulse / motor latch logic in the corner of some programmable logic chip that's gonna be there anyway? Add the good old DF1 present jumper as is found in big box Amigas. :-)
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Hi Jens
My 5 cents: Please add 2 3-pins fans connectors. Adding DSP as option(socket) like AT&T DSP3210 or MC56002 would be nice. Maybe in future some soft will make use of it. Also build in USB with driver in ROM in year 2015 is not so crazy :] |
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While I'm happy someone is making an attempt at a new board, what was announced leaves me cold
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12 July 2015, 22:37 | #212 |
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dear Jens i would also like moon on a stick, i can has moon on a stick pls
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Those of you who want built in Indivision, USB, Ethernet and what not...wake up.. its not that he doesnt see the value of having USB...etc.. but
Jens has solutions for all of the above in existing product already. What he is creating now is a re-animated platform to continue selling them. The best you can hope for it that the he sells some attractive bundles. E.g. mobo + indivision + rapid road for a fair price etc... Personally Im waiting to hear if theres gonna be a Vampire with built in improved gfx core for the Amiga reloaded. If yes then apart from having the most awesome 68k CPU known to man, you also wont really need the indivision. Sounds like a good deal to me. |
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Quake 2 on Falcon DSP
http://dhs.nu/news.php?t=single&ID=893 Atari Falcon - The power and might of the DSP https://translate.googleusercontent....d7FjTs3OalM7BQ |
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Lets have USB, Ethernet, advanced Video w/ HDMI and a Co-Pro (eg ARM Soc which could drive this current gen stuff) built in. Sure leave off the CPU so we can have have 020's, 030's or FPGA's with loads of ram, but lets make the Amiga Reloaded something really great that we'll have for the next 30 years. |
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There's no point in adding new hardware or improving the AGA chipset because no bugger is going to code for it and Jens will struggle to get the OS updated to support it.
USB, LAN and the IndyMrk2 are different because they don't require any new hardware, software or drivers....they are all proven Classic hardware add-ons. |
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I don't really understand this motherboard. Amiga I/O and display ports are outdated so we remove them but don't replace them with modern ports? Upgrades with the old custom chips are difficult so we keep them and ignore FPGA technology which is easy to upgrade? I'm happy to see new products but how about an upgrade and a complete product without a bunch of add-on hardware hanging off of it for once? I'm sorry my statements sound so negative as that was not my intention. Last edited by matthey; 13 July 2015 at 07:01. |
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As for the cost of the Raspberry Pi, there are a couple of reasons for this: First is the volume of Raspberry Pis produced which is already around 50,000 times higher than the number of boards Jens will sell. That's a different galaxy when it comes to economies of scale, buying parts etc. Second, the RPi is a not-for-profit venture so no profit is included in the price. This also means the RPi Foundation can avoid taxes and so on which reduces the cost even further. And third, it's using a SoC design that already includes pretty much all the interfacing electronics that are needed "for free", which is certainly not the case for the Amiga motherboard. Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see USB etc. on this new board too, but it doesn't make sense to include all the things that anyone wants when it will increase the price for everyone. I'd much rather pay €350 for a board and modules that does what I want it to do than €450 for an all-in-one board that does a lot of stuff that I don't want. |
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