@Jorge

sorry i don't understand.

For "AOS4 support", do you mean OS4 on Classic (CyberstormPPC) with daVinci?

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oster: TheDungeonDelver Date: 10-Jul-2005 10:58:32: Well I for one think this is an awesome new toy that gives A4000/3000D owners a little something to smile about. I personally hope a Z2 version comes out* for A2000 users (all 100 or so left in the world! ) but as you say, first things first. Best of luck on this endeavor!

Don't know where you are, but in the U.S. there are a lot of folks who would love relatively inexpensive upgrades such as this. Because of the Video Toaster (and other things like the Super-Gen, etc.) large numbers of A2000's were in sold to video production places large & small. I still use a rev. 4.2 system at work and have one in reserve. I'd use it even more with a graphics card.

At home, once a proven version for the A2000 existed I'd put my Spectrum card on eBay to help pay for it.

Oh I'm here in the 'states as well...not an A2000 user though (not out of lack of desire...I'd love to have one of those for nostalgia's sake - and then soup it up thru the roof!). If I were, I'd lobby these guys hard for a Z2 PCI connector.

But more than that the 2000 needs a PPC card, mang. It really, really does. Hmm, maybe this ACK thing will come out for the ol' 2000. That'd be a sweeeeet combo.

Sorry, I'm railing and raving at the moment.

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For "AOS4 support", do you mean OS4 on Classic (CyberstormPPC) with daVinci?

Sure, or any other Classic PPC which might come. In detail: OS4 expansion.library support ?

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I would like to say that I would spend some money on buying a chip that could store the kickstart and let me boot my A1 in less than 5 seconds.

Well this should have been on the actual A1 from start IMO!
A reflashable chip just like the UBoot one.

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@Jorge
As the daVinci is based on Prometheus, OS4 support *should* not be a problem.

Best regards,
Ron van Herk
AHT International

Yeah, I suppose it does make more sense to use off-the-shelf stuff for the Amiga these days. I'm just concerned about the hoops you have to jump through to get that pc stuff to work on an Amiga. I once looked at hacking an ISA vga card onto an Amiga... lots of strange registers and crud to deal with ...
I had in mind an FPGA "upgrade" of the Amiga chipset, with higher resolution and larger bit-depth. I don't really need anything more than a basic display.

I also did some research on what it would take to do a PCI interface, and I think it could be done with 3 chips- if you use the expansion buss on the cpu card

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It would probably even make Zorro2 PCI adapters go much faster...

Is there such a thing? I don't recall ever seeing one.

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