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Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« on: August 11, 2016, 01:11:15 PM »
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Is this version available for pre-order yet?

Also...hmmm I have a spare A2000 with one of the dreaded German Motherboards...



Why "dreaded"?
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Re: A2080 i.e. Vampire 500 V2 on an Amiga 2000
« Reply #1 on: August 16, 2016, 12:22:12 PM »
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Putting an intel chip onto an amiga motherboard might seem like blasphemy, but it would have even less overhead than amithlon. The only annoyance is big vs little endian.
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The best implementation would essentially be a modern bridge board, so you could run pc software on it at the same time as running amiga software.
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Hummm.
If something like a "realtime endian converter chip" existed and would be used in conjunction with an Intel CPU for an Amiga motherboard or accelerator board - could that work?

I mean - as far as I understand all the hardware talk - Amiga code should run on Intel CPUs, once the endianess of the code is changed, right?
Or did I get it completely wrong?

Does something like an "endianess converter" chip exist?
I seem to remember having read somewhere that there actually are CPUs where the endianess does not matter - it is changed "on the fly", IIRC. So there must exist something like an "endianess converter" chip, right?
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