OK, I'm easy to convince we need pci. as I mentioned in my earlier post I do understand most controllerchips are designed to connect to PCI, so PCI would be a logic and cheap (power without the price) thing to do.
I think I have to put my main point more clearer:
- If we wnat to have a new atari it shoud be unique (e.g. so powerfull that it can't be emulated) you could say instead that a new atari needs some unique sellingpoints.
By the way, since I'm a complete novice, how is memorymapped IO handled on the PCI bus in let's say a hades or a milan? Can program registers on a PCI card just as you would on a atari? And how is memorymapped IO space handled on aranym? Is it possible to put a deese into a PC and run the dirvers that come along with it on aranym? Does it work at all?
OK, details details. Back to my main point. How would you picture a successor in the atari line Johan if you would have to make it out of single component (not just grab a PC mainbord an run aranym on it)?
