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The Coldfire AMIGA
« on: April 17, 2002, 07:58:43 PM »
Myself, PJ Matthews, owner of www.walibe.com and Oliver Hannaford-Day owner of www.cdtv.org.uk are currently in the process of designing a new classic AMIGA based around the coldfire processor. We hope to use the AGA chipset along side another as yet undecided GPU.  



Its a big project and we want your help, paticuarly in securing a batch of Coldfire processors, so if you know of anywhere selling in small batches please contact us, also you can join our group in buying 24 coldfire processors, just contact us with how many you need. Visit walibe.com for all the latest info on the subject.

Many thanks to you all.
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Re: The Coldfire AMIGA
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2002, 08:21:53 PM »
It should be 100% compatible once the emulation layer (hardware or software) has been implemented- or very close.

 It offers an alternative to classic AMIGA users, we hope to have an A1200 accelerator board also using the processor, just look at the what the coldfire chip can and what bridge chips are currently available, you'd be mad not to be interested.

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Re: The Coldfire AMIGA
« Reply #2 on: April 17, 2002, 08:43:15 PM »
Some designs can even include PCI slots and an AGP slot, it'll be the most powerful true AMIGA you have ever seen and it'll beable to play all your classic games as well as more moderns. The possibilties for a set top box unit similar to the CDTV based around this make the mind boggle. It should be cheap and be almost 100% compatible with all your classic software which is why our main aim is.

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Re: The Coldfire AMIGA
« Reply #3 on: April 17, 2002, 08:51:23 PM »
Its been done - the Inside Out just stuck it all on one chip. We're after the rights to the chip or just the rights to manufacture a batch. Or the very worst it could just be ECS with an optional extra GPU.
 

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Re: The Coldfire AMIGA
« Reply #4 on: April 17, 2002, 09:11:01 PM »
That my dear  friend was my original intention. You can CDs full of AMIGA games for next to nothing. Retro computing is becoming popular again and this could be your answer people to running that older software, bringing back the memories.

Finally an AMIGA user whos plugged in, nice one seer.

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Re: The Coldfire AMIGA
« Reply #5 on: April 17, 2002, 09:27:58 PM »
Theres faster processors in the coldfire line due out, but this also an issue of compatability. I'm betting the AMIGA One runs few of your older applications but then again these are two different machines. Reduced instruction set yes, its a RISC processor after all.
 

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Re: The Coldfire AMIGA
« Reply #6 on: April 18, 2002, 12:48:20 AM »
How do you mean register to AMIGA.org - I'm already a registered user if that what you mean???

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Re: The Coldfire AMIGA
« Reply #7 on: April 18, 2002, 01:48:07 AM »
A laptop AMIGA is a very popular idea, alot of AMIGA users have suggested this, it is very much a possibility - but we need to take this one step at a time.

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Re: The Coldfire AMIGA
« Reply #8 on: April 18, 2002, 02:54:38 AM »
AGA was mentioned along side another another as yet undecided GPU. This would mean the AGA chipset is still there for any hardware that requires it but the GPU kicks in for other stuff. We also beable to raise the 2mb chip limit of the AGA chipset up a little, but this is a guess and I'm not even sure if it an be done. Alot of signs point to NO whilst others (The A4000 motherboard) point to YES.

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Re: The Coldfire AMIGA
« Reply #9 on: April 19, 2002, 12:48:34 AM »
AGA is here for backwards compatability which is important in atleast one of the applications we have for it. You can add a GPU to it with ease for a fully rtg system but because we are designing it, it means we can do a few alterations to make things run more smoothly.