Hi guys and gals,
when i saw the videos/pictures etc , i got abit..WOOOOT? when i saw u let the people fiddle with your card/project , didnt you get a tad "NONONONO dont do that!!!" feeling when you saw all them people putting their fingerprints and power 
onto it ? etc ?
Nope, you didnt see the funny bit, my stand got a bit quiet so I started spinning the card ( one corner of the card on the table, the other on the tip of my finger) and then there was this massive noise, I dropped the prototype, face down on to the table... hehe opps.
I actually wanted let people pick the card up and have a look, its nice to touch. ;-)
will the ide'controller be DMA ? , will it be pio4 classified ?
To be honest I havent done much on the IDE side of the design, so far I have just been reading all the docs I could find on the net however it will be as fast as it can be and have DMA (Which from what I have read shouldnt be much trouble)
what memspeed do you expect from this card?
I dont know, I will have a look, see what the Motorola board will do and get back to you.
will there be any luxury status following with this card ? hehe
hehe, who knows, I did think it would be fun to put the music bit out of a birthday card which would make a tahh dahh sound when you opened the box, just to make it a bit more classy, but then I figured that classy people could do the sound and a piece of paper with it on would be cheaper.
Bloodline:
Damn!!!! I've got a good question now.... Multi processor support?
Unfortunatly Im not that up on muti processor boards but there are Coldfire boards around with two CPU's. (One using a V4)
Saying that I dont intend to try making such a card, sorry.
PS: i like the new colors on the official ColdFusion website.
Hehe, thats about all that has changed, from red to blue, I intend to add more pages latter.
Calen:
How fast is the top end Coldfire CPU's anyway?
220Mhz V4, Its the fastest you can get at the moment but Motorola say products using the new V5 at 333Mhz will be available by the end of the year.. the big question is when will the chips be available to people like me. :-)
is there faster ones and will they be usable on this project?
If a faster chip comes on the market I will use it. (The design will not need changing)
Also would heat them become a problem on non towered Amiga's with a much faster CPU if they exist.
No, the Motorola Coldfire is designed to run very cool, without a heatsink or fan, heat will not be a problem at all.
Kees:
Hey Oli .. fancy another 'bad pint' ?
Cool, are you paying? If so I will book the ferry right now.
It wasnt a bad pint though, you could never get drunk on it, thats good. (just think how many you would need, I mean that one guy got about 2/3rds troth on his.)
When you come to the UK I will have to buy you a yard of ale, then you will find out why we still use feet and yards. ;-)
