Which he claims as fact. Do try to keep up.
You have an attitude problem. You showed it in your early responses to lou's post - e.g., "I'd owe you sweet FA chum." - a very aggressive phrasing in English, it's effectively one step before someone glasses someone in the face in a pub.
When someone writes "100x faster blitter" they're not being 100% pedantically accurate. In English it it understood as "around 100x faster" to "a boat load faster". He then went on to mention that FPGAArcade is getting 40x faster blits (although he could have cited that, but again, the forums on Amiga.org aren't wikipedia, they're chatty forums), that NatAmi's specs are even higher, so it isn't an unreasonable expectation.
There's nothing wrong with Lou stating what the NatAmi team have stated as their aims. You should be asking for evidence from SamuraiCrow or other NatAmi people as to the speed and status of NatAmi - however to their credit they have said that they'd rather work on NatAmi right now than give continuous updates.
It is interesting to note that you jumped on Lou's 100MHz 68060 comment very quickly, and that in the next comment SamuraiCrow said that it was actually a 99MHz 68060, but that the 68050 core would be over 100MHz.
My problem isn't with the assumption as such (though given the proposed updates in the rest of the enhanced AGA being proposed by the Natami team I think a simple maths equation just won't cut it), but with the fact that he states it as fact and then gets angry when asked to provide evidence.
He tried to show you why he thought that, basically faster FPGA than FPGAArcade, a faster memory bus, etc.
All I did was ask for evidence "Citation needed". Apparently these days that's abrasive, rude and obnoxious. Fair enough.
Still failing. Read above.
No, that's not what is abrasive, rude and obnoxious. It's what and how you are writing it that that is.
My reason for "dredging up" the past was to point out that far from some pedestal occupying god, to be gazed at in wonder but not to be questioned that he'd apparently like to be treated as. He is in fact only a hair's breadth from being Atheist2. Honestly I don't know or really care about him, in fact the word "muppet" pretty much sums up my feelings toward him in their totality.
So he had some fancy ideas in the past that might have been based entirely upon the Gamecube/Wii having a PowerPC processor.
Instead of responding to him if you hold him in low regard, why not just ignore him? Or accept that some people might have less technical knowledge, and that their desire is to have a friendly discussion in an online forum in a similar way to having a friendly chat down the pub. It's meant to be fun. He's not advocating genocide for MorphOS users or something! It's been pointed out loads of time in this thread that we'll find out in due course what NatAmi is like, we're all working from what has been written on the NatAmi website, said in the NatAmi forums and said by NatAmi members here and elsewhere.
As for me, a 100x faster blitter sounds great, but I won't cry if it's only 50x faster in the end due to the FPGA, the design, the memory speed or the weather in Iceland on that day. The same goes for the 68050 design they're working on. I wish them the best of luck but we'll see if it will clock at 133MHz, or 66MHz. If they know it will, they could throw us a tidbit of information now, but until then we're taking their word for it in order to have a fun chat about this project.
