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[AAACHIPSET]

i know im gonna get told too old or slow ..but i have often wondered ..esp with the natami when it was coming ..then it went quiet ..an all the work thats been done with it re: new type graphics chipset ..faster cpu etc ..why noone has considered re doin the schematics on the AAA chipset board that was almost finished ..my understanding of it was it could be made to run with more than one aaa chipset running ..as in parrallel 2/3 chipsets ..surely with a 060 with it it would be fast enough to browse online play games etc ..i realize it doesnt compare to a ppc but that never really took off that big ..an interest in the natami an others was growing leaps an bounds ..i would probably buy one still ..if it ever comes out ..seems to me that a upgraded board that was almost finished would be a better starting point ..than basically starting with a 1200 an trying to turn it into a super computer ..
my opinion .....an thoughts..

[bloodline]

The AAA chipset was old even by the time Dave manged to get some working silicon. By that point the commodore engineers were playin catchup to the dedicated graphics chip manufacturers

[matthey]

The AAA would provide reasonably good performance using todays technology but there are parts that are outdated and parts that are missing compared to what is expected today. It's much cheaper to work in an fpga than to create a custom chip too. The Natami route is the proper way to do a modern AGA/AAA. The Natami is not quite AAA but it is a much more flexible and compatible way of seeing what a more modern Amiga could do. AAA would have been a compatibility nightmare for those that liked their old hardware banging games.

[Iggy]

Both really good answers.
For backward compatibility and BETTER then AAA performance, a clean slate would be best.

[Digiman]

Originally Posted by AAACHIPSET

i know im gonna get told too old or slow ..but i have often wondered ..esp with the natami when it was coming ..then it went quiet ..an all the work thats been done with it re: new type graphics chipset ..faster cpu etc ..why noone has considered re doin the schematics on the AAA chipset board that was almost finished ..my understanding of it was it could be made to run with more than one aaa chipset running ..as in parrallel 2/3 chipsets ..surely with a 060 with it it would be fast enough to browse online play games etc ..i realize it doesnt compare to a ppc but that never really took off that big ..an interest in the natami an others was growing leaps an bounds ..i would probably buy one still ..if it ever comes out ..seems to me that a upgraded board that was almost finished would be a better starting point ..than basically starting with a 1200 an trying to turn it into a super computer ..
my opinion .....an thoughts..

You can't retrofit it to a real Amiga and 060s are terrible price performance so what's the point?

if we were talking about tooling up to make a recognisable completed single machine prototype like a Commodore 65......