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Title: Oliver Hannaford-Day Interview - Submit your question
Post by: Kees on September 29, 2003, 09:59:41 AM

Oliver Hannaford-Day, who is working on the Coldfire project has agreed to answer some questions.

Please submit your questions.

Title: Re: Oliver Hannaford-Day Interview - Submit your question
Post by: Framiga on September 29, 2003, 10:50:19 AM

Hi

i would prefer to leave Oliver's free time, should be dedicated to the fine-tuning of his project :-)

Go straight to the target Oliver! and . . . .remembers you of the promise that you have made me, care the review as soon as the board will be workings on an A4000 :-D

Ciao

Title: Re: Oliver Hannaford-Day Interview - Submit your question
Post by: Brian on September 29, 2003, 10:57:34 AM

I'd like to know if the final release version will work in an Amiga without CPU on motherboard. I'd also like to know speed of this card vs an ordinary 060/50 card. It's been confirmed that USB1.1, FireWire, Sound, IRDA, DIMM and fast IDE is going to be on this card, byt what else might be added or uppgraded before final release version? Any chance of seing a port to allow for CVPPC gfx card to be added to the card in the final release?

There is alot of pictures of the A4000/3000 prototypes but none of the other Amiga models, are there any such prototypes and if not then why not and how long till we'll see any?

Title: Re: Oliver Hannaford-Day Interview - Submit your question
Post by: SKAN on September 29, 2003, 11:38:47 AM

Will you let this beast stay inside a standard case A1200?
Any chance to see a graphic card on the A1200 version too?
This is what I really need, don't wanna go towering my good old Miggy! I still live happily with my 060/50+SCSI and I need no tower except fot a GFX card!!! ;)

Title: Re: Oliver Hannaford-Day Interview - Submit your question
Post by: LP on September 29, 2003, 12:58:49 PM

How will the card be supported on the software side?

Title: Re: Oliver Hannaford-Day Interview - Submit your question
Post by: bloodline on September 29, 2003, 02:09:31 PM

Can you explain to us in detail how you plan to get AmigaOS functionaing on the Coldfire? I am aware of many issuse that exist with the chip and 68k compatibility.

I believe you make reference to 68k emulation (for missing Addressing modes and instructions), Would this not cause considerable slow down?


Sorry I couldn't think of a better question, good luck :-)

Title: Re: Oliver Hannaford-Day Interview - Submit your question
Post by: keltic on September 29, 2003, 02:22:04 PM

What about compability with existing A4000 Hardware, for example the Mediator. Will there be any issues.

Btw. I would love a cheap GFX chip so that i wont have to buy an Mediator!

Title: Re: Oliver Hannaford-Day Interview - Submit your question
Post by: xeron on September 29, 2003, 03:01:24 PM

@SKAN

Maybe you could stick it in something more interesting than a tower, like i am (http://www.petergordon.org.uk/cd1200/)? ;-)

Title: Re: Oliver Hannaford-Day Interview - Submit your question
Post by: sdesros on September 29, 2003, 03:22:54 PM

-Where are you now and what are the next steps in the developement?
-When do you think you *might* get to the point of having an Amiga booting (ie: getting past POST) with one of your cards?

Title: Re: Oliver Hannaford-Day Interview - Submit your question
Post by: Kronos on September 29, 2003, 03:35:24 PM

How do you plan to emulate FPU (afaik there is none in CF),and how slow will it be ?

Will there be a PCI-slot (I think that was promised for the A2000-version), and if yes
what drivers will br available ?

Or in other words, have you contacted the CGX (or P96)team in regard of the
Voodoo3 ?

How much RAM will it take ?
And whats the cost of the whole fun ?

Title: Re: Oliver Hannaford-Day Interview - Submit your question
Post by: Paul_Gadd on September 29, 2003, 03:41:43 PM

Interesting,

Who are you and why are you making this?

Title: Re: Oliver Hannaford-Day Interview - Submit your question
Post by: SKAN on September 29, 2003, 03:50:14 PM

@xeron
Cool indeed! Good luck to you too!!! It seems quite promising, but better with Coldfusion inside instead of the good old 060/50 ;)

Title: Re: Oliver Hannaford-Day Interview - Submit your question
Post by: shIva on September 29, 2003, 11:47:27 PM

how much will it co$t ?
how will it be distributed ?
do you need beta testers ? (i´d really like to be one :-D )
have you tried to overclock the working system ?
how many emails do you get each day ? (might be interesting for knowing why they are not answered - just curious, please don´t be angry)
will the software side be similar to CS060 (68040 dummy lib)
the gfx chip (already mentioned) would be interesting.
how will the integrated periphals be supported (libs, frontends) ?
would it be possible to implement a 100MBit (ie realtek) chip ?

Title: Re: Oliver Hannaford-Day Interview - Submit your question
Post by: Plaz on September 30, 2003, 01:11:23 AM

Could you use any help? I used to proto-board and trouble shoot multi-layer proto-type circuit cards and do surface mount work on military grade microwave frequency electronics. I ended that line of work years ago and normally wouldn't be advertising for more punishment :) But this sounds like a really cool project. Good luck

Plaz

Title: Re: Oliver Hannaford-Day Interview - Submit your question
Post by: Elektro on September 30, 2003, 01:25:03 AM

hey oli hows it going?  :-D

Title: Re: Oliver Hannaford-Day Interview - Submit your question
Post by: Cyberus on September 30, 2003, 01:26:16 AM

Quote

military grade

;-)

hu, huh-huh, huh-huh, he like said, like, military grade, huh-huh.

Thut up Beavith

Title: Re: Oliver Hannaford-Day Interview - Submit your question
Post by: Damion on September 30, 2003, 02:18:31 AM

How about a gfx-card expansion for the 1200
version? :) A desktop 1200 with coldfire and
a gfx-card would be the ultimate..

Good luck with the project.

Title: Re: Oliver Hannaford-Day Interview - Submit your question
Post by: Kees on October 07, 2003, 12:05:53 AM

One more day left .. if you have a question .. submit it now ... i'll close the thread tomorrow.

Title: Re: Oliver Hannaford-Day Interview - Submit your question
Post by: GadgetMaster on October 07, 2003, 12:16:51 AM

After your prototype is successfully tested who are you going to use for the manufacturing process.

Are you in talks with anyone about this?

Also, who will market it?

Title: Re: Oliver Hannaford-Day Interview - Submit your question
Post by: Argo on October 07, 2003, 02:17:28 AM

Along that line, What is your background in reguards to this project?

Title: Re: Oliver Hannaford-Day Interview - Submit your question
Post by: Kees on October 11, 2003, 12:00:48 AM

Thanks for submitting questions .. we will relay some questions to Oliver ...

This thread will be locked ..