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Offline Hattig

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Re: Will there be an ACA1240 or ACA1260?
« on: December 10, 2012, 10:29:40 PM »
It's getting tough to source quantities of 68060s, don't expect anything there.

And the 68040 is a hot chip. I had an A1200 25MHz 68040 accelerator back in the day, and it had a fan and it was noisy and barely fitted in the trapdoor.

Maybe the FPGA Arcade softcore will evolve to a state where it competes in overall performance with a 68040 or even higher, and then Jens could create an ACA12FPGA running that soft core, using a modern FPGA to get the most performance out of the soft core. I wouldn't worry about putting money aside for that right now though. Hopefully he can find some more 50MHz+ '030s for more 56MHz ACA1230s.

I don't have much faith in the Natami project to come through with their 68050 however.  The project is pretty much dead.