Smaller, energy efficient turbo card for A1200

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Hyperspeed wrote:
Anyone got the link for the 100Mhz Falcon '060 board?

http://www.czuba-tech.com

I have one, running at 100Mhz. It needs a particular 060 mask, or it won't run at that speed (labelled 68EC060, but actually contains the whole shebang). Bus speed towards the SDRAM is 100Mhz too, so it's about as fast as the 68k range can ever go.

-- Peter

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Dude, they actually labelled some full versions as EC. Mine happens to be one of them. I didn't say that EC:s are capable of running at 100Mhz. I'm perfectly aware that this does not apply to all CPUs of that mask.

Perhaps I could have expressed myself a bit more clearly, however I think good manners does *not* include using terms such as "bollocks" when speaking to strangers for the first time.

-- Peter

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Hyperspeed wrote:
Interesting that there is a parallel 68k computing universe taking place with the Atari Falcon going 100Mhz '060/SDRAM...
What kind of software are Falcon users meddling with these days? Any famous apps/games?

The OS is open source, as is the GUI, so there is a bit of development there. Since it (sort of) complies to POSIX, it's fairly easy to port stuff from the un*x world which means that there are a few emulator/game ports.. It's probably similar to the Amiga scene, but with fewer active people.

-- Peter

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Problem is digging up rev. 6 060:s. Czuba sort of vacuum cleaned the world for them.

-- Peter

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Unlike those poor Atari savages, we've had companies like Phase 5, GVP, DCE, Elbox developing our hardware.

Unlike those poor Atari savages who run TOS on a Freescale Coldfire developer board. we are discssing if AMIGA OS could be run on Coldfire. I have to admit that the Atari OS seems to be somehow open sourced so that a re compile is possible...[/quote]

Actually, TOS isn't opensource. The MultiTOS kernel (known as MiNT or FreeMiNT) is, however. Didier M has managed to patch and reverse engineer the binary TOS ROM image by hand, which is.. well.. insane. But that's what he did.
AFAIK someone else has had the FreeMiNT kernel up and running on some coldfire evaluation board.. Opensource is great.


-- Peter

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I just found the site i meant. It seems he uses the Freescale CF68k library, build for emulating a 030...
In the lower half you see some pictures about the eval board running ATARI OS -and some speed comparisons between HADES 060/CT 060 @100?/Coldfire EVB, or am i wrong?

Nope, that's the guy. He's developing graphics drivers for CTPCI, the PCI adapter for the CT60. Since no actual hardware was available, he started patching TOS instead, and used a freescale EVB.

-- Peter