Was I dreaming when I remembered this....

[alexh]

If anyone is gong to develop another MiniMig board, they could do worse than put a 68040/68060 socket down.

A 50 euro MC68060RC50 running at 100MHz will be better than anything you can get in an FPGA for many years to come.

[alexh]

freqmax wrote:
Yep, but that MC68060RC50 also need some serious soldering.

It's easier than the current Xilinx. Plus if they are getting mass produced.

I think that it's possible to get away with a of-the-shelf developer board with softcore cpu.

1)There is only a 68k softcore cpu atm. (and it is still being debugged.
2)FPGA will be too small/slow for top end 68k cpus + Amiga.
3)Developer boards have crappy 4-bit or 10-bit VGA out. Neither suitable for Amiga.

Btw, who sold those 50 EUR CPUs?

A guy in Germany, through Ebay. They were (I think) pull's from old telecoms equipment. Or maybe he worked for Freescale? They were MC68060RC50's rev6 E41J. Rodolphe of the CT60 (Atari ST accelerator) got his from this guy. They sold at various prices "buy it now" prices ranging from 30 euro to 75 euro. I bought two in a regular auction for €43 each (+ p&p)

[alexh]

Colin_Camper wrote:
I wish the Amiga could make a come back as good as Kate Bush did - Aerial was a great return to form - A sky of Honey was simply stunning......

Are you a woman?