Freescale introduces a $49 MCF5225x coldfire module

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Doesnt the C64 have a "clock port" ethernet solution?

Surely it would be easier to write drivers, rather than designing an interface AND writing drivers?

Or I could be wrong on that...

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The C64/128 has the rr-net, which uses Amiga style clock port on products like the MMC Replay. I've asked Jens about the possibility of Amiga drivers and he suggested it would be a bad idea.

Shame classic Amiga don't have a low cost ethernet solution like the C64/128, the 64nic+ is stand alone and only $55.

I wonder what he meant by that??  Surely the signals must be the same...  Why would it be such a bad idea??

It really is a shame that the C64 has this nifty device, and we don't. Even though we were the original clock-port-utilizing-out-of-the-box-blue-sky-thinkers.

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It's a software issue. Amigaland is a different ballgame than c64 land.

So could it be used on an emulated C64 on an A1200??

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The Amiga is a multitasker that shares resources in a hierarchy of common protocols, the c64 isn't. Interfacing stuff to hardware isn't hard, doing useful stuff with hardware in a layered software stack is.

Ahh right.  That makes sense when I think of it like that.