Natami Design Goal
Goal of the consumer version of Natami is to create a very affordable Amiga design.
An Amiga that is powerful enough to be useful for today's typical tasks.
Our goal is to develop a single chip (a complete Amiga in 1 chip) that will be used easily to build inexpensive new Amiga compatible systems.
We would like to offer this chip for little money to every company that is interested, allowing them to produce new Amiga systems.
Goal for consumer version of Natami:
* Complete Amiga on a chip
* Amiga compatible hardware
* Run original AmigaOS and Amiga applications
* Play old and new Amiga games
* Truecolor 24bit gfx and 16bit audio
* Size between a big USB key and iphone
* USB, Ethernet and flashdisk support
* Boot AmigaOS in 1 second
* Immediate system on/off
* Surf Internet, watch online videos.
* DivX, Xvid, DVD playback
* Volume production costs of less than $100
We think that in this area the AmigaOS still has some major advantages.
The original AmigaOS is very efficient. The combination of this very efficient OS and the usage of the powerful SuperAGA, will result in a very swift computer.
The computer experience will be much faster than a PC with comparable clockrate. Think about what you could do with a A4000 with AGA and then think that SuperAGA is about 100 times faster.
Our goal is not to sell these systems only by ourselves. We are fully aware that our development team is very good in development but not able to sell effectively these systems to the mass market.
The Natami will not be a competitor to a Wintel Desktop machine, nor will it be a PlayStation 3 killer.
Natami Roadmap
Our road-map looks somewhat like this:
* Natami60 developer system will come out summer 2008.
* The Natami60 dev-board has two main purposes.
- Allowing early developers to develop/port software to Amiga.
- Allowing more people to verifying the SuperAGA chipset to be error free.
* When the dev-board are out we will focus on three things:
- Designing the cost reduced Natami version.
- Developing our Next Generation 68K Core
- We will add new feature to the SuperAGA chipset