Can you explain the benifits of having a "complex, modern, fast core" is? ( other than running 30 year old software fast? Is there an end game for it?
Is the end game complete replacement hardware that's backwards compatible or??
The benefit is that it opens doors for new software on classic Amiga that wasn't possible before because even a 060 would be too slow.
The end Game is providing a path forward for our ageing hardware with full backwards compatibility.
The second benefit is that this hardware is a lot cheaper and faster then current 68060 accelerators and you get RTG as a really nice bonus.
Even a V600 running at x11 is already over twice as fast as a 68060 50Mhz.
Running at x13 or x14 it's over 3 times faster then a 68060 50Mhz.
And that's with existing software/code that is not even optimized for Apollo-core on a low end FPGA the cyclone 3 is.
And with almost every core update the Apollo-core is gaining speed.
Since I got my V600 I use the A600 every day again with much joy.
It boots my quite GFX heavy OS3.9 in 720p res in about 3 seconds, it plays MP3 while I Surf the web, share files with my PC, chatting on IRC,watch a slide show all at the same time with no sweat at all.
I'm really looking forward to the V1200 that will be faster and have a lot more memory.