Joined: 14-Mar-2003 Posts: 5211
From: Ylikiiminki, Finland
@digitaldisaster
>I spoke to Jens a while ago and he doens't want to *make* a board to compete with the A1 but I will ask both him and Elbox if they would stock such a board. If Eyetech were allowed to rebadge a board as their own they may sell i.
I think the naming needs to be sorted with KMOS. Eyetech would not need to rebadge anything all that is needed is the will to distribute your boards.
About the high-end and G5 CPU.... I think the most clever way would be to use the "dumb PCI-X backplane" idea. You could use readily available components and change the CPU and RAM when things mature. And later all high end 3D GFX chips will be available for PCI-X anyway.
Also that could blow the HW market wide open. Various manufacturers of CPU cards, I/O cards, GFX...
hmmm... perhaps the AOS4 dongle would need to be on the backplane.
>A toyed with the idea of a PowerPC upgrade for classic systems ...
David Haynie and Jens should be capable to aid you a little bit (Jens masters FPGA, Haynie knows guys who developed AmiJoeG3 etc...).
IMHO: A1200 PPC accelerator needs to be very simple to avoid huge costs.
I suggest three development steps: A) 1Ghz G3 with 512k L2 and 256Mb of SDRAM soldered on the board (at this point you would only need Hyperion to write the HAL for your PPC card) B) Later you could make model with mobile Radeon GFX chip. (or jump directly to C))
And may I remind you again at this point, most likely sales would never cover your R&D cost. It would need to be done "for your own fun". Perhaps Elbox or someone else would be interested in a production run of 2000 units, but that's the maximum.
C) Build a replacement for the A1200 motherboard itself !!!! (mobile Radeon with 64-128Mb GFX RAM, preferably AIW, 3D audio, 2 RAM slots, USB2.0, Firewire, etc... and custom connector or faster PCMCIA connector) (at this point you would need the licence from KMOS)
(Amigans would love that kind of roadmap...)
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