Enter the Dragon or enter the vapor?

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This forum has allready had a thread about recompiling for Coldfire (feck knows were, I can't be bothered to look)and if I remember correctly "clean system friendly code" was pretty much a case of pumping the code through the above mentioned tools. Not all code is "clean" & "system friendly" however but I don't recall the specifics.
The Polish demonstration showed the Dragon as being rather impressive and I have little doubt that many Coldfire naysayers are only saying "can't do, won't do" due to some bizare retro 68k religious attitude.
All that's said and done is just a big steaming pile of nonsense until......I've said it before and here I go again....IT'S ALL WORDS UNTIL THE SILICON IS IN MY HANDS!!!! :-D

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Zac67 wrote:
A fast, basic x86 mainboard + CPU is available for little more than $100 (see Amithlon) - why spend more on a board that actually offers less? Because the x86 board is able to run Windoze? Come on...

Oh come on, you know why, It all comes down to what you consider an Amiga to be. Some people need the real thing, others are happy with emulation. I use my creaking old A1200T in favour of UAE most of the time and my PC is way faster (AMD 4200 X2), it just "feels" better.  :-D

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@ Gavilan

Cool, I just signed up to an Open University course to study a Ba Sci +Honours in Computing and design. I hope the platform still survives (and grows) by the time I finish. It would be good to give something back to the machine that got me into computers in the first place.  :-D

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.....and no, before anyone thinks I'm  totally mad, I did not join the OU to become an Amiga developer. That would be ...silly.

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 :-o Deja Vu :-o

This thread has happened before....

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SHADES wrote:
I would rather a 200Mhz 020 based processor than a 100Mhz 060.

I'd buy a 200Mhz 020 anyday.