News of Free 060 Like Apollo Core License

[Hattig]

This thread is everything wrong with the Amiga scene.

Someone who hates something that somebody else has done that does't appeal to their purist ideals (despite the fact that the Moto 68k cores are very different, all have different FPU capabilities, and different MMU implementations), and they just can't stop pointing it out.

[Hattig]

and noncompatible MMU  while it states it IS compatible with the 040/060?

Strange..  is it compoatible or not?

Anyway..  no MMU stuff means no debuggingtools  meaning programmers avoid it meaning no software maning: no use of the bells and whistles..

FPGA is nice..and I would love it.. IF 060..

Most people understand 'compatibility' in a CPU to mean 'runs the same software'. The Apollo Core in Vampire appears to do that in the main. There is FPU support (however it is achieved), which is more than a lot of old Amigas ever had.

So it's the MMU, and one bit of software, Enforcer, that drives all the arguments. And if a developer uses that, then that is a problem, but plenty of developers do not use it. It's very niche software that most users won't need. But something to replace it would be nice.

Given the '060 doesn't behave like the '040, which doesn't behave like the '030, which doesn't behave like the 68000, we should stick with the latter?

You aren't going to get an FPGA '060 either, that would require a lot of reverse engineering, just to redo what has already been done.

I note that the vast majority of your posts here are anti-Vampire.