in case you are interested to test new fpga accelerators for a600/a500

[Blizz1220]

To Thomas,


Lets look at some numbers
Phoenix today can reach over 300 Mips - this means Phoenix is like 20-30 times faster than todays ACA cards.
We see on the horizon the next gen FPGAs.
This means we can have a future roadmap where we know we can create cards with over 1000 Mips.

The performance difference between Phoenix and old 68030 cards is so ridicolous
that I think the wish to run future killer applications on both platforms is pointless.

Nice news ... If you , Majsta Thor and any others contributing can make a card that would be just 020 combatible (fpu or no fpu) and beat 060/100 Mhz by a margin of even 50 % AND add any kind of RTG to it as well (800x600x24bit would be GREAT) you would have best product on the retro market.Shapeshifter can run on 020 without FPU and with RTG it flies and playing around with old Macs I'm pretty sure System 7.5.3 (which is freely available from apple now) would work (It was already PPC there but 68k compatible as well) and most things could be made to work.

Was little sceptic about this but seeing A600 running ADoom in 24+ FPS full screen in ECS HAM mode (!) and verifying that from more than 3 people seems to be proof enough for me.

Don't overestimate end-user wishes

[Blizz1220]

Okay , this thread has gone to the abyss so I will stick my
neck out waiting for assembler axe to fall.

I suspect that this board WILL indeed be able to use WHDLoad
to play games without it's owners having to resort to cavemen
year of loading games from floppies.

1.Because WHDLoads runs 99.5 % of games on 060 at normal
speed because good old Amiga chipset is still used for that and
the fact that cpu just got 100 times faster doesn't matter

2.If it isn't so then it will be possible by using :

C:INeedWHDLoadNowTnx >NIL:

That new command will make mighty Phoenix return to ashes
of something like the speed of 10 Mips (it will allow us also
to use 128 MB memory as 1 MB isn't enough for WHDLoad)
and no disabling of card will be needed

Somebody tell me I'm right :hammer: