Bandis wrote:
I applaud your initiative but I would recommend that you rather looked into the 68020/30 project over at the EAB website.
68020/30 - RAM - Project
The reason 68060 accelerators go for 300 on ebay is because they are not taken off an assembly line. Flood the market and you will hardly make 300/board. Unless you plan to sell one every month for years to come.
The only "market" in my view is for the casual gamers who just want to play some games and tinker around a bit. the 32bit extra ram and a faster 020 or 030 is more than enough to do this while keeping it all at a reasonable price level. Perhaps around 100 euro.
I am one of the 3 responsibles for the project.
For information to everyone:
- It is designed to simpler Amigas (those with 68000 CPU), not to interface with more complex ones (020 and up)!
- The most economical version will cost less than 50 Pounds (main goal), using static RAM (no CPLD to interface memory);
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There is a SDRAM controller ready for PPC CPUs, it uses a simple CPLD for this;
- The initial version is for A600, second for A500/2000/similars;
I don't announce it here because I want to do it
only after the first working prototype.
BTW: [color=ff0000]I don't accept preorders![/color][/b] And no one of my companions will.
