Re: Projects that take Commodore computers to 2021

As I understand it, the 8 bit line was pretty much at its end with what would have been the C65. The future of Commodore computers would have been Amiga and PC and most likely a combination of Amiga and PC. The closest thing to it would be AROS/Icaros Desktop. Of course, Commodore being a company might have the commercial resources of advancing Amiga operating system into the 64-bit realm so a 64-bit AROS/IcarosDesktop with full support of RTX video cards & ATI's equivalent and some of that subsystem would likely be the case. The shift to using those video cards. Using either an Intel or a clone CPU.

There would be possible implementation of a hardware based blitter besides what is actually in all video cards todays as original Amiga patents had expired and the tech was ultimately adapted and implemented in order to improve PC graphic capabilities so besides video blitter, overall system blitters useful for more than graphics but moving data around in memory. Anything to give the computer a little edge of performance. They would have several models ranging from consumer gaming/graphics 'workstations' desktop/towers to more larger scale systems for more advance applications. 

In this day and age, the "AMIGA" branded models might actually be the systems more targeted to professionals in the video/graphics industry they may have their PC line which would have the same OS but able to boot and operate Windows or Linux. The underlying API would have been more modernized for more modern computing while compatability APIs for legacy but they would have advanced the OS because the world would require robust compatibility and usefulness in every domain of computing and the internet age but it would also have been possibly its own OS which maybe a new generation memory protected Amiga-like OS building on the legacy of Amiga OS and PC (DOS/Windows/Linux/Unix compatibility). 

That is if Commodore didn't go under.


> On 12/12/2021 4:11 AM Claudio Sánchez <tokafondo_at_gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi all. There are many projects that use modern technology to interface Commodore computers.
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> And many if not most of them fall in two categories:
> - Those that try to recreate chips as substitution
> - Those that emulate classic storage devices
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> But what about making the Commodore computers work as if they were computers of 2021?
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> As an example of what I am talking about:
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> The storage devices emulators try to replicate how a 1541 drive works, so the user will have a small flash memory drive filled with disk image files of 1541 disks. And that mean PRG, SEQ, REL files. But what about a FAT file system implementation and software like a text editor that would write TXT files? Or a 'paint' program that would write BMP files? Or a database program that would write DBF files?
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> Thanks for answers.