Id buy a coldfire

[xeron]

Maybe we should have a new poll? The old one is... well... old :-D

"What do you think of the Coldfire project?

1. Great! Its my primary upgrade path (hopefully ;-) )
2. Great! I'm getting a PPC system, but i'll still stick a Coldfire in my old miggy.
3. Bad! Its a distraction from PPC projects
4. I don't want one myself, but its cool
5. Huh? Coldfire what?

[xeron]

bloodline wrote:
they can go... do you see Atari or MAc users trying to get that little bit extra out of hardware that is over 10 years old... no,

How do you explain the prototype Atari PPC cards? or the (seemingly stalled) Atari Coldfire Motherboard project? Or the 060 based Atari clones?  :-D

[xeron]

Well, heres a forum topic over on Atari.org about "The Atari Coldfire project": http://forums.atari.org/read.php3?num=3&id=11991&thread=11979. spooky mirroring of amiga.org or what?  ;-)

There were some prototype Atari specific PowerPC cards made, but I can't find info about them now (damn it!). here is some info about a project to fit Phase 5 PowerUP cards into an Atari Falcon, but I don't think that got anywhere...

Here is some info about the "Hades", "Medusa" and "Milan" Atari clones.

[xeron]

Aha! I found some info! A company called "Titan-BSS" were making a PowerPC card called "Tempest" for the Atari Falcon.

Their website has long since disappeared, but I found it in the web archive...

Read about it here.

[xeron]

bloodline wrote:
and no Atari software ever needed anything moe powerful than an 8Mhz 68000...

Bzzzt! Lots of Atari software has been released that use 020, 030, 040 and even 060 processors. Most people don't use just the basic GEM desktop and TOS, they use MiNT, MagiC, etc.

Sure the Flacon has some nice features, but it was too little too late.

So are you saying Atari fans should just give up with their machines and operating system, and forget it? Why is it any different to the Amiga?

Atari is a hobby computer, much like the Amiga. Its users grew up with Atari, they enjoy using them, tinkering with them, and upgrading them.

[xeron]

As I understand it, Oli is intending to use a V4 coldfire in the final versions, which are more 680x0 compatible.