Picture of a Vampire card mounted on an Atari

[Motormouth]

What a waste putting it into an Atari.

[Motormouth]

Are we still in the 80s squeaking "My computers better than your computer!" ?  :-)

Just good natured trash talk.  ;-)

 The reality is, if cores existed that allowed the vampires work with Atari's and even Mac's, it would greatly help make the vampires more financially viable.

Still I would rather see the vampire in one of my amigas

[Motormouth]

I think making hardware that fits is the complicated part, not the actual core. Many macs came with CPU slot, I'm sure the socket is exotic I have a Quadra with PowerPC CPU card myself, a fast 68k card CPU card for it would be great.

I guess I was thinking of the older 68000 macs.  The Quadra's are already 040s.  From my memory, The addressing space in the early macs was quite simple compared to the Amiga's or even Atari's mostly due to the fact the later two have significant custom chips.

[Motormouth]

From what I remember the addressing schemes were a total disaster in some early Macs.
 Weren't there a few that could only address 8 out 16 MBs?

Err well This is more a function of the 68000.  They were similar to the A1000/A500/A2000.  They could only address 8 megs with a 24 bit memory space.  Unfortunately, doesn't this sound familiar.

Most of the really early ones could only be expanded to 4 megs on the motherboard.  The mac SE (for example) could go to more if a 68030 accelerator was added, (again a function of the 68030 rather than the mac itself.)

[Motormouth]

One of the macs that was messed up was the mac LC.  It had a 68020 and could only use 10 megs of ram.  It could use more with a processor upgrade. (again doesn't this sound like a certain amiga with a 68EC020, ummm an A1200).  But this is getting a bit to far from the topic.  That is a vampire in an a 68000 Atari.