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Turbo
As we all are the developers of Amiga, we can try to do the best line of home computer.
Everebody loves Amiga!
Simply the best!

Developers should take care about real standard.
First of all we should to define what Amiga really is.
The main policy of Amiga is very sophisticated full chipset named ECS.
It is really important to do main axis of imagination. ECS - enhanced chip set.
Complete of few IC's on mainboard inside of Amiga is that axis!
First of all without ROM, Kickstart, DOS, processor. No other features are allowed! ECS only.

2MB chip ram for DMA controller 25 channels:

Video Display Adapter 6/25 channels
Audio 2 channels *2, 4/25 channels
Sprites 8/25 chanels
Blitter unit 3+1/25 channels
Copper unit *2, 2/25 channels
Floppy Disk Drive 1/25 chanels
Interupts controller
I/O interfaces' ports


2* FDD allowed, internal + external
Total Memory allowed for full compatibility: 16 MB
/due to Motorola 68000' 24 bit address bus for Amiga500 memory map.

First level
Standard
No turbo allowed
2MB RAM the same area as DMA contoller
2* FDD
No HDD allowed
Memory map for Amiga 500

description:
Standard Amiga as possible. 2MB of RAM should be equal for almost all engages. 2 floppy drives reduces disk's changes and offers full comfort of use mass memory devices.


Second level
Turbo inside
16 MB total RAM for full compatibility
2/16 chip RAM
8/16 fast RAM
Memory map for Amiga 500
HDD allowed
Host Bus 7/28 MHz MasterClock

description:
Very nice kind of turbo. 2 MB plus 8MB of RAM, total out of 10! It is large space of memory. Processor should be like RISC construction. One command per one cycle of host bus's clock. It depends on processor kind and inner construction. Host bus is still the same speed as usually, but processor working much faster on every command, probably with variable speed to oryginal 68000. Additional chipset offers new devices, usually HDD controller. Proccesor and fast RAM are connected to standard Host Bus at standard speed, but computer works very faster with almost full compatibility.


Third level
Turbo outside
128 MB total RAM
2/16/128 chip RAM
8/16/128 fast RAM
Memory map for Amiga 3000
HDD allowed
ISA connectors for extensions
host bus 28-33Mhz as full throttle speed of MasterClock

description:
Outer turbo. Let's focus around memory map!
It is really new computer with additional power.
Some memory map is equal to old memory area. It is all on new RootROM to achive full compatibility with old AmigaECS computer. If rom will be quite good enough, all turbo computer will work equal. Main axis of turbo is pushed outside to turbo module with new processor. All construction is multiproccesors'.
External turbo module could have new Host Bus with diffrent speed. Both system must be connected with very fast parallel port to exchange the computing datas. Total power of that system could be huge!!!
As for true multiprocessors system, we could try to achive almost every kind of enganges:
Video turbo system like 3dfx Voodoo, or RISC with oryginal MIPS Technology R4000 ,64 bit extensions ISA cards for double video buffering, SoundBlaster AWE64 , 64 channels sound card even with MIDI interface and true real time video compressions with MPEG hardware encoders. Turbo module should contain CD-RW, DVD-RW.









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