Well, I didn't win the lottery again tonight, so I'm going to pitch this idea out to the community so that it will at least be considered. We all know how awesome Amikit is right? Seems to me that Amikit is the "Holy Grail" of Amiga OS setups. Its loved to the point of people creating a version for real Amigas. Well my poor A2000-030 system won't ever be able to run it in its current state, and I even built a dedicated PC that I am one day going to have exclusively as an AmigaX86 Box.
Then I got to thinking, "With the advent of the APU, why haven't I seen any discussion of making an APU based accelerator for the Amiga?" Imagine an OCS/ECS Amiga with an APU accelerator at its core? Everything would be taken care of, Graphics, Acceleration, and most importantly X86 compatibility to setup a WinUAE/Amikit combo!
The A1000 and A500 could have external IDE hard drive add-ons with all the ports in the back built in(Video, audio if desired, ethernet, etc.). Big box Amigas could have a card created for their accelerator ports, especially the A2000(No more having to look for the fabled EGS 110/24 as you could have a Radeon style GPU with up to 8GB+ of RAM on the accelerator) and of course some enterprising person could build something for the A600/A1200, like they always do.
And of course you would have some kind of bypass to retain original Amiga compatibility, even though I couldn't imagine why you'd want to, unless you wanted that Amiga feel every once in a while. This was going to be my baby if I ever got rich enough....but I thought it more important to help keep my favorite computer kicking than to keep it to myself waiting on a dream that's probably not going to happen anytime soon, if ever at all.
Then I got to thinking, "With the advent of the APU, why haven't I seen any discussion of making an APU based accelerator for the Amiga?" Imagine an OCS/ECS Amiga with an APU accelerator at its core? Everything would be taken care of, Graphics, Acceleration, and most importantly X86 compatibility to setup a WinUAE/Amikit combo!
The A1000 and A500 could have external IDE hard drive add-ons with all the ports in the back built in(Video, audio if desired, ethernet, etc.). Big box Amigas could have a card created for their accelerator ports, especially the A2000(No more having to look for the fabled EGS 110/24 as you could have a Radeon style GPU with up to 8GB+ of RAM on the accelerator) and of course some enterprising person could build something for the A600/A1200, like they always do.
And of course you would have some kind of bypass to retain original Amiga compatibility, even though I couldn't imagine why you'd want to, unless you wanted that Amiga feel every once in a while. This was going to be my baby if I ever got rich enough....but I thought it more important to help keep my favorite computer kicking than to keep it to myself waiting on a dream that's probably not going to happen anytime soon, if ever at all.
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