Hi ido
Can't tell you very much about the current Ataris.
The only one i knew was the 520ST my brother bought shortly
after i got my A500 (Both with 1mb Kick1.3/TOS1.4).
The Atari was a bit faster on number-crunching apps due to its
full 8mhz and all its mem being "fastmem".
Playing cames it was a bit different :-D :-D
TOS was basiclly a MacOS-clone with standard file-requesters
and so on, while Kick1.3 was a bit "rough" on these issuses.
Omikron-Basic kicked ass when compared to Amiga-Basic.
TOS didn't have any kind of multitasking and was in some
ways just a sack full of (working) hacks.
When Atari launched the Falcon (think of a A3000+ in a
A1200-case) they couldn't deliever a working OS with it.
Thats was the end of Atari as a computer-manufactor.
Back to the Coldfire:
The cpus run at up to ~350mhz and are somewhat 68k-
compatible. So you won't need a full cpu-emu but only something
like the 68040.library. 68k-SW should run at about the same
speed as on a A1/Pegasos.
The bad side of this is that the coldfire-cpus are not intended
for desktop-computers, and will never be able to compete
against PPC/x86, just like the arm-cpus used in RiscOS-maschines.
BtW: The first name of the project was Pegasus, this was
later dropped to avoid confusion with bPlans Pegasos.
