Posted by _Pete_

Hmm... in that "What portable would you like" thread, someone mentioned an Amiga... Which got me thinking.

There was a company making something called the "Inside Out" card, which was for multimedia display points, and was basically an A1200 motherboard that fitted into a standard 5.25" disk drive bay. It was a fully working A1200! If you could get your hands on one of those boards, you could squeeze that, and a floppy disk drive into a fairly small space, along with a control pad. You could then play old disk-based Amiga games on it!

Disk drives are getting slimmer all the time, and there are hacks on aminet (http://main.aminet.net/~aminet) to attach standard PC floppy drives to Amigas!

Just a thought...

Actually, if you pop along to http://www.amiga-hardware.com, and click "Computer Models". Scroll down and look at the models made by "Index". The card I was thinking about was the "Access". The "Inside Out" was an Amiga on a PCI card.

You might be able to find one of these things on EBay.

The only problem with the system as far as I can see is putting your name into high-score tables without a keyboard.

A lot of games DID use the joystick for this even though a keyboard was there (which was annoying!), but some only allowed keyboard input...

Either way an AMIGAp would rock! :)