When is the last time in your memory that you had one device that "did everything"? Let me help you answer that......NEVER. I wish you guys would stop trying to impose unreasonable demands on a hobby such as Apollo/Phoenix.
Chill out. I am not demanding anything. I was just explaining to Thor, the concept that psxphil was explaining, using different words.
As for your scenarios above, the FPGAs can do such things if someone develops the cores you're looking for. Get it thru your heads that Mac compatibility, MMUs, and 100% absolute compatibility are not the goals of this project and move on. Or better yet, learn to develop a core that YOU'RE happy with and stop whining.
/me casts RetaliatoryStrike +20 vs. Misdirected Rants
Gunnar already said there would be a Mac-Compatible version of the core.
Gunnar has also said, 512 bazillion times that 68070/Apollo would be 100% compatible.
If you don't like the way Gunnar is doing things then learn to develop a core that YOU'RE happy with and stop whining.