Whatever happend to the Coldfire project?

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I remember some guy going on about it a while back...  :-)

Any news, info, designs, proto boards?

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magnetic wrote:
No funding.. thats what happened..

I can't say, I'm surprised... but it did sounds liek a fun project...  :-)

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Hmmm, yeah the website shows some really interesting stuff!

Shame the Coldfire is even further behind than the PPC do be of any real use.  :-(

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

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Wow!!! I didn;t realise I was going to start such a big thread!

/me Proud  :-D

Still looks really cool.... Sure makes me want to get one for my A1200... The sheer number of features make it worth it... AC97, USB, IDE... if all that can fit inside my A1200 Case I'll be a happy boy. It would certainly be more use than my BlizzPPC.
Did Oli say something about PCI? how about a Cheap integrated VGA on there aswell... damn!!! that would be one serious geek toy!!!

I would have to say though it would have to be some serious speed to make it worth my while... I've got my fingers crossed for 500Mhz...  :-D

PS. I would like to try one in an A600 too, but I can't afford two (if any!?!?!), maybe a one size fits all? :-)

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Kronos wrote:
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The A600 is the only Amiga, that doesn't have a slot which allowes CPU-cards. Those accels that do exist are slapped
ontop of the 68000, a far from perfect solution, and since the A600 is also the only one to use a SMD-68000 it would
need a special version.

An A500-version could fit into an CDTV or A2000, maybe even an A1000, but the A3k/4k would need another version, and
even one more for the A1200.

Right yeah, fair play. Forget my A600 comments then. But I stand by my VGA idea, even a cheap Blade3D chip would be better than any Amiga gfx card. Though a GF2 MX would be better :-)

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although... if you port Aros to the Coldfire when its out maybe I could make a one off.

It's 68K compatible, right? then your wish wil be along soonish  :-o (we already have a 68K build of AROS,  for the Dragonball CPU)

Once at Port to the Amiga has been done, it shouldn't take more than an adjustment of the Compiler settings to get it output Coldfire happy code.  :-D