Hi everyone,
From Italy comes an ambitious and interesting project called TiNA (Tecnologia Informatica Amica).
TiNA is a new board that is being designed and developed in Italy by a team of Amiga enthusiasts. Their main goal is to make a complete implementation of the Amiga 500 and/or Amiga 1200 by the use of powerful FPGAs. They want to make this come true with a 68020 CPU that is even more powerful than any existing 68060 CPU. It’ll be able to execute 2 in-order instructions per clock cycle, but at 400 (!) MHz instead of 50. On their website they state that there is a lot of work to do when it comes to this and they need to investigate fully if the FPGA will allow such features.
Just like the old Amiga tradition, there will be several independent FPGAs to handle sound, graphics and so forth.
They aim to maintain full backward compatibility, which I think is great.
As far as I’ve understood, they are bringing up AROS Vision 68k as an OS for this computer, which is a good choice.
I really hope these guys can pull this off, especially after what happened to the Natami-project. If they do, I’ll be first in line to purchase one or more boards. 😀
If you’d like to check out TiNA further, please have a look at the official website of the project:
http://www.tinaproject.it/index.html#
The latest news can be found here:
http://www.tinaproject.it/news.html
Let’s cross our fingers and wish the developers the best of luck with TiNA! This must succeed! 🙂
Thanks for reading and for visiting my blog. Until next time! 🙂
Old School Game Blog 
I just found out yesterday and was doing a bit of a write up as well. Seeing as I had not heard of it we better bring it under the attention of people. I just signed up for the forums as well.
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It was pretty new to me too, until I read about it in a thread on Amigaworld.net today.
Yes, it is important to give it some attention and get some publicity for it. Hope to see something about TiNA on your blog as well. The more the merrier!
Hope these guys will pull this off. I was very disappointed with what happened to the Natami, so hopefully they will not expand their goals too much and stick to the main plan. 🙂
And I do of course have to ask you… if this board sees the light of day, will you get one? 😉
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I will get one for sure. Given that it is not to expensive and has the wife’s seal of approval. 🙂
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Hehe.. that is the most important thing. 😀 Let’s hope it will have high WAF (Wife Acceptancy Factor). 😉
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WAF lol 🙂
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Hehe.. 😀 It’s like they say.. “May the WAF be with you!”
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Yep. 🙂
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🙂
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