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Re: Coldfire status
« on: May 11, 2006, 09:45:39 PM »
Hi all-
Hmmm.. there is a lot of negativity here.  I just revisited the Dragon FAQ site and it seemed as tho they expect the Dragon to run "most" 68K software straight up, no emulation.  As I understand it, the latest coldfire has enough of the 68K series (what? commands? microinstructions? complex instructions?)functionality that a relatively minor patch will supply the rest and let the thing run transparently as a 68K CPU with FPU, MMU, etc.

Of course, if it was all that easy they would have released the thing in Jan 05/ er Jul05/ er Oct05/ by Dec 05/ any day now.

I can believe things go wrong and make deadlines slip- but I'm really hoping the Dragon will run my old software at semi-modern speeds.
CRL :-)
 

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Re: Coldfire status
« Reply #1 on: May 11, 2006, 09:46:57 PM »
sorry- double post
CRL