Amiga.org

Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga News and Community Announcements => Amiga Events => Topic started by: Kees on September 24, 2003, 01:49:51 PM

Title: Remember the Coldfire Project ?
Post by: Kees on September 24, 2003, 01:49:51 PM

(http://www.beneluxpegasosshow.com/gfx/bas_.gif)During the Benelux Amiga/Pegasos Show, Oliver Hanaford-Day will be showing a prototype of the Coldfusion accelerator.

For more information about the Coldfusion, please visit their site (http://www.cdtv.org.uk/coldfire/index.html).

For more information about the Benelux show, choose one oh the links.

Amiga Site (http://www.beneluxamigashow.com/) - Pegasos Site (http://www.beneluxpegasosshow.com/)

Title: Re: Remember the Coldfire Project ?
Post by: Kees on September 24, 2003, 01:53:44 PM

How cool would it be to have a super fast Amiga 600 ?

Looking forward to learn more about it on the show.

Title: Re: Remember the Coldfire Project ?
Post by: Cyberus on September 24, 2003, 02:08:03 PM

If only I could make it over there...won't be in Netherlands till November  :-(

Title: Re: Remember the Coldfire Project ?
Post by: odin on September 24, 2003, 02:13:07 PM

Will this be the mock up? Or actually something which is working sortof :-).

Title: Re: Remember the Coldfire Project ?
Post by: Prmetime on September 24, 2003, 02:37:36 PM

A superfast A600 would be really cool though I think it would be even better with a better graphics chip too!

Now if this will really work with my A3000, then I shall be VERY happy.

Title: Re: Remember the Coldfire Project ?
Post by: lempkee on September 24, 2003, 02:43:38 PM

coldfire is more like Stalfire atm on amiga..

even atari has had this for ages , lucky bastards ..

i hope we get coldfire soon...and by that i mean...working one and actually one we could use in our amiga :)

cheers

Title: Re: Remember the Coldfire Project ?
Post by: odin on September 24, 2003, 03:08:35 PM

lempkee:

Shuddit for a while will ya? It's only oli_hd (or are there more folks now?)  working on them boards okay? If you think it's going too slow then why haven't you built one of them boards 5 years ago!  :-x

Title: Re: Remember the Coldfire Project ?
Post by: amigamad on September 24, 2003, 03:29:02 PM

I would like one for the cdtv or the a1000 i have. :-)

Title: Re: Remember the Coldfire Project ?
Post by: redrumloa on September 24, 2003, 03:48:25 PM

Sigh.. Boy I wish this was available for resale, I'd buy at least 100 for resale. They would compliment my stock of A500 computers so well:-(

 :-(

Title: Re: Remember the Coldfire Project ?
Post by: Karlos on September 24, 2003, 05:02:25 PM

Man, I can't wait. Go Oli, go Oli...:-D

Title: Re: Remember the Coldfire Project ?
Post by: adolescent on September 24, 2003, 05:31:37 PM

Quote

even atari has had this for ages , lucky bastards ..

Did they ever actually release anything?  According to ACP there are only development/prototype boards.  Is there another project that actually completed?

Either way, I'm anxiously waiting for this product.  I'd love to get a pair for my A3000 and A4000.

Title: Re: Remember the Coldfire Project ?
Post by: jdiffend on September 24, 2003, 05:35:31 PM

If you've been following the progress of this you'd know that Oli fried the first Coldfire chip he put on it and since removing that one hasn't said much since.

I wouldn't expect a working board at the show and even if the board worked there is a question of software that still needs to be written to integrate 680x0 emulation for the missing instructions.

Title: Re: Remember the Coldfire Project ?
Post by: Tomas on September 24, 2003, 05:43:31 PM

I was sure this project had died  :-o

Damn cool it still exists  :-)

Title: Re: Remember the Coldfire Project ?
Post by: tintin on September 24, 2003, 06:47:07 PM

The AtariCP people are supposedly still working on it though their webpage has not been updated since July. http://acp.atari.org/news.html (http://acp.atari.org/news.html)

Title: Re: Remember the Coldfire Project ?
Post by: Crumb on September 24, 2003, 07:49:04 PM

@Lempkee:
"even atari has had this for ages , lucky bastards .. "

no, they haven't it. Even 060s are rare in the Atari world... for example Rodolphe Czuba needs 50 orders to make a batch of 060 accelerators...

Title: Re: Remember the Coldfire Project ?
Post by: Dan on September 24, 2003, 10:41:51 PM

A Coldfire-accelerator is the perfect upgrade for my old A500!
It also would be nice for CDTVs.

Title: Re: Remember the Coldfire Project ?
Post by: Stew on September 24, 2003, 11:15:33 PM

Man this really looks good. I want one soon!

Stew

Title: Re: Remember the Coldfire Project ?
Post by: gregthecanuck on September 25, 2003, 01:11:47 AM

Hey -

Nobody has mentioned the Yahoo group:

        http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amigacoldfire/ (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/amigacoldfire/)

Title: Re: Remember the Coldfire Project ?
Post by: jdiffend on September 25, 2003, 04:48:09 PM

Yeah, it's got a web page.... yeah it's got a yahoo group... yeah it's going to be at a show... yeah it would be cool, great, fast... whatever... but does it work?  Not yet.

Title: Re: Remember the Coldfire Project ?
Post by: Framiga on September 27, 2003, 04:15:19 PM

Quote

Poster: jdiffend Date: 2003/9/25 17:48:09

Yeah, it's got a web page.... yeah it's got a yahoo group... yeah it's going to be at a show... yeah it would be cool, great, fast... whatever... but does it work? Not yet.

and so? has Oliver took money in advance from you?

Put yourself in front of your monitor, drink a cup of tea and . . . . stay tuned :-)

Ciao