Piru wrote:
@leirbag28
You are mistaken. WinUAE might be limited to 68040 CPU in the emulation, but it easily runs circles around any real M68K, overclocked or not. It's like several hundred MHz 68040, not to mention the ultrafast hdd, fastmem and vmem access.
This was the case 3-4 years ago already, by now it's ever faster...
68040 is not even a limitation in terms of instructions. Isn't that why an 040 and 060 is in need of some software aid to emulate missing 68000 opcodes.
Not being able to emulate the 060 is not an issue. The P4@2.6GHz machine will run circles around the real 060@50MHz.
Edit: thought I might as well add some on topic opinion.
Create a souped up towered A1200 only if you really like the hassle, don't care about the money and like the alternative software it can run.
Because other than that I think an amiga that is souped up like that is just too expensive for what it becomes and what you can do with it.
Think of the architecture: You toss overboard all that Amiga hardware is about and use an 060 or even a PPC to interface via PCI with a GFX card or even a soundcars or NIC.
The only thing amiga about that machine is probably the motherboard that is only in use for the keyboard interface and as PSU for the rest of the system.
Take it one step further then; Use a PC + UAE. Faster cheaper and probably 1% less amiga then the other config.
I just don't see the fun of it.
From my own experience; I have an 060@50 in my A1200. It is faster than the 030@50 I had before but not by that much.
Afterall it was just the desire to obtain the hardware. Now that I have it I realise I just run WHDLOAD on my system. No need for horsepower when vintage gaming.
Ask yourself what you are after and if it is worth the hassle.
