Whatever happend to the Coldfire project?

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I personally feel some other solutions being far more attractive... but that is another thread.

Ahh.. but he's considering doing versions for the A2000, A500, CDTV etc. and for them, it really will be the fastest card available!

If they ever come out, my A1500 is going to get one for sure! :-D

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What? Thats a really stupid attitude. I like classic Amigas; they are a great hobby machine. The coldfire accelerator isn't about "moving the platform forward", its about making a kick-ass Amiga classic.

Just because YOU don't want one doesn't make it "a waste of time and money". Its just cool. Actually its beyond cool... its awesome :-)

I'm also buying an AmigaONE, and maybe even a Shark for this A4000. But there isn't any harm in wanting my A2000 to be as fast as possible, is there?

Obviously, anybody out there making cool gadgets, or souping up their classic cars, should just stop being so silly, and wasting all that effort, because noMAAM doesn't want one...

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Ofcourse it would be cool to have kick ass classic .. but what good would it bring to this community ?

So... nobody should do anything unless it "brings something to the community"? Doing something because its cool isn't enough?

A lot of things in this world are done "because its cool", you know! ;-)

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jdiffend wrote:
incompatibilities that Oli has to deal with.  I don't think it's quite as simple as he expects it to be... but hey... what do I know?

The situation is made easier by the fact that the emulation module will be loaded from flashrom before even kickstart is booted; and therefore will be invisible to the system. The fact that there are many tested solutions out there means that most of the hard work is already done for him.

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utri007 wrote:
My point is, will it actually make any games or ect faster, because limits of aga and amiga MOBOs

Copying to chipram will still be slow, but Quake doesn't have to do any more C2P work than say, breathless, or Doom on the same size screen, so, provided the rendering buffer is in Fast RAM on the Coldfire card, I can't see why you can't get the frame rate up with a Coldfire card, even on AGA.