Your favorite Motorola. (68k)

[Narayan]

What is your favorite Amiga processor? On this question you are certain to get some generic answers. Like, the 68020 is good, however I would go for the 68040, but most I like best the 68060.

Ok, this is genericism, and in some old frames of Amiga computing it was like this.

Picture there's a variety of for now only these: 68000, 68010, 68020, 68030, 68040, 68050, 68060.

Each and every single one of them is fast and strong as the other, so this means you could have an A600 with a 68000, or 68010 right next to the A4000 with a 68040 or a 68050 and they would be strong and fast enough both, and every with their own look and feel.

In this condition, what would be your favorite? Firstly, I would certainly check out the 68010, and would start my use of these with a 68000 (which is not sluggish, but a buster).

Anyone interested for this quickie poll here.

[SamuraiCrow]

I don't think there was ever a 68050.  They skipped from 68040 directly to 68060.

[MrZammler]

Generic-ly speeching, there is no 68050.

[Karlos]

There were rumours that a 68050 part was designed but then scrapped. I don't think they are true. Motorola seemed to use the even tens increments for major changes to the 680x0 series and the odd tens increments for smaller changes.

Anyway, don't forget the 68070 (although that's by Phillips and definately not an upgrade to the 060).

There's also the CPU32 line which are interesting in their own way, and of course the coldfire series.

From a programming perspective, I like the 68020 as a starting point. The scaled index addressing mode (aX,dY.w|l*N) is very useful although on the 68020 you are just as well to calculate it yourself unless you are short of registers.

Other stuff added to the 68020, such as bitfield operations are also interesting but not a great deal of use due to the number of cycles they take.

[kd7ota]

(In a very generic tone, generic voice, generic speech.)

68030 since thats what I owned and used.

[Effy]

Me too, as most AGA demo´s work on this processor !!!  :-)

[Karlos]

Mine would be the 68040 as it was on my first accelerator card for the A1200.

I'd quite like an 060 upgrade to my bppc but I don't see myself doing that any time soon ;-)

[Xanxi]

68030 is the best. Tiny, cute, golden, compatible, not too hot: so good!

[X-ray]

I would say it is 50/50 between the 030 I had in my 1200 and the first 060 (MKII) I had in my A4KT. I have very fond memories of doing everything at a decent speed on the A1200, but I also made quite a few raytraces with my 060. Didn't play as many games though. If I was to be objective, then in the current use of Amigas I would say the 50mHz 030 is the likely to be the favourite in terms of compatibility, availability and cost.

[glitch]

Hi all,

    You know, I'm actually going to say the '020.  Back in the day everything was running on a 68000 (Atari/Mac/Apollo etc.) and when the first CSA 68020/881 tower was released it brought the power of the little A1000 up to that of about a Sun workstation costing WAY more.  Software like Silver! and Sculpt3D really flew on those beasts.  The '030 was an incremental improvement anyways.  The '040 brought the FPU integration and some kick-ass FP performance.  The '060 doubled that performance again.  But, it was the leap from 16/32Bit to full 32 bit with the '020 for me that was the most memorable... {sigh}

My 2 cents (Canadian)...

-G

[Narayan]

Can't do without.

/me says it's a brilliant processor.

[Lemmink]

So you all fell for it.

[x56h34]

@Lemmink:

Seriously. This idiot should really get banned once and for all, as I am sick and tired of reading his nonsense throughout every single Amiga portal, including Usenet...actually especially on Usenet.

Ive, get help and soon.

[Zac67]

Even though I never owned one, the '020 surely was a milestone.
But I like the '030 best since it was the most advanced CPU on any Amiga main board - and because it really kicked ass when it came out, architecture and speed wise. The '040 had its match in the i486 and the '060 could not really beat Pentium Classic performance. :-(
Plz don't flame me, I love 68ks, esp. for Assembler programming.

[orange]

@x56h34
sadly, I agree with you, his posts are just wasting the time of all ppl here..