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Offline QuikSanz

Re: What would you buy for classic Amiga?
« on: November 11, 2014, 04:02:36 PM »
Quote from: Heiroglyph;777072
Mixing Zorro and CPU slot in one vote is a mistake IMHO.

I'm not really interested in Zorro, but a 4000/3000 060 (or faster) card with RAM and storage (fast DMA IDE or even better SATA) would be a quick sale.

Run PCI directly from it through a cable to replace the Mediator Zorro/PCI bridge card and I'd definitely be buying at least one. That wouldn't be limited to ZorroIII speeds and could finally do DMA properly.



This sounds real good. Add a fast bus with fast memory and I'll buy 2!
 

Offline QuikSanz

Re: What would you buy for classic Amiga?
« Reply #1 on: November 12, 2014, 07:50:26 PM »
Quote from: matthey;777137
Just 2 more weeks!

An Amiga 68k fpga CPU won't be hitting 400MHz any time soon. An fpga that fast would cost thousands by itself. An affordable Cyclone V with the Apollo/Phoenix CPU can do 100MHz or a little more and a superscalar 2 integer unit Apollo CPU should be 2x to 4x as fast at integer than the 68060. That's still pretty powerful as the 68060 is no slouch.


With speed like that you could really make use of a nice fast bus and memory.
 

Offline QuikSanz

Re: What would you buy for classic Amiga?
« Reply #2 on: November 23, 2014, 09:16:59 PM »
Quote from: alphadec;778097
would be nice if a-eon would get on board and try to push through a amiga fpga-clone so the amiga community could have also more choices and also we dont forget the classic amiga.


Now that brings to mind a new model specific replacement Motherboard with modern features added.
Now that would be too cool!

Chris