28.Sep.1999
Joern Plewka per eMail
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KATO
We support the attempt of Mr. Grabbe, who suggested a new, useful Amiga hardware.
This suggestion isn't new, but after the planless acting of AI, where even 5 years after
CBMs bankrupt nothing happened (hardware), nonetheless actual.
The big problem, which prevented us from integrating the Amiga into a standarized platform
via slot card until now, is the problem with the drivers for plugin cards and on-board hardware.
In the opposite to the name owners, who constantly states he doesnt need third party developers,
we know that they cant make it on their own.
Another problem is the Amiga Community, which can only be filled with enthusiasm for completly
illusoric projects. Its not practical to try to compete with SGI, Sony or Apple, which are calculating
millions of sold systems. Otherwise homecomputermainboards are classified to be useful enough to
use modern RISC CPUs. The result are the well known "impotent" tower solutions.
CPU top....envoirement flop.
If there should be amiga developers, which dont want just want to tap money, they should use
standard hardware. In the first point this would be a usual mainboard (Athlon/AlphaII) or a
PPC-mainboard (IBM/MOT).
Katodev has access to a bridge, which is used as adapter to use cards,build for 030 Macs, in PCI
machines. The license fees should be really low. This would be a basis for a minimal Amiga mainboard
without CPU, something a british company was unable to do.
Amiga-floppy and sound would be 100 % compatible, the 68k would get emulated, for example via UAE,
which is ,with a decent CPU, already fast enough.
Everyone who wants cooperate with us, and Mr. Grabbe, should contact us. There are no detailed
infos or product-announcements for end-user.
(ps)
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