| From: | Steve Hodson |
| Date: | 25 Oct 2000 at 02:01:08 |
| Subject: | Re: Amiga announcing silly named things? ;) |
Don Cox wrote:
> 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. ;-)
>
Don`t be surprised if it`s not a very similar or familiar solution...I have
my suspicions about where some of this design work is coming from.... ;)
Gotta agree about the no pre-pay..I lost $x to Phase 5 :( .... just a bad
bet...I really wanted that sweet G4 card :)
Steve
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