| From: | Don Cox |
| Date: | 24 Oct 2000 at 14:15:49 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga announcing silly named things? ;) |
On 24-Oct-00, Eyetech tech assistance wrote:
> With 680x0 emulation on the G3/G4 (which will be a boot option from
> the AmigaOne's flash ROM) the board will just look like an Amiga
> accelerator to the native Amiga, will boot kickstart etc. All the old
> hardware will be available - which is the real point of dooing it this
> way. All the PCI resources will also be available, but will obviously
> need 680x0 compatible drivers which we are not planning to write (but
> will give all assistance to anyone who wants to write PD ones). More
> likely is that the whole process will give an added impetus to a
> Classic Amiga 'emulator' under Amiga DE, which will allow the old
> Amiga to be thrown away and the new PCI resources to be used by
> Classic Amiga software.
It sounds like a very good solution to me, and much better than the G4
boards that Phase5 had planned last year.
And no pre-payment requested. ;-)
Regards
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