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Offline Donar

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Re: Back to real world ;)
« on: March 02, 2007, 02:36:35 PM »
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utri007 wrote:
Today would be quite easy and cheap make accelerator card for a1200 with 040, even as a hobbyist project.

manufacturin costs would be aroud 40 -60 €

Just wonderind why allways this kind of treads start to go to distant galaxy ???

Because people want 060 Power. :-D

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Another point is, that seems ? that coldfire accelerator is pointless, would be too slow with old apps and any "not so system friendly" programs wouldn't work

As we haven't seen one out in the wild having the opportunity to test/benchmark one it is hard to judge...

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Unlike those poor Atari savages, we've had companies like Phase 5, GVP, DCE, Elbox developing our hardware.

Unlike those poor Atari savages who run TOS on a Freescale Coldfire developer board. we are discssing if AMIGA OS could be run on Coldfire. I have to admit that the Atari OS seems to be somehow open sourced so that a re compile is possible...
<- Amiga 1260 / CD ->
Looking for:
A1200/CF CFV4/@200,256MB,eAGA,SATA,120GB,AROS :D
 

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Re: Back to real world ;)
« Reply #1 on: March 02, 2007, 10:58:37 PM »
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shoggoth wrote:
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AFAIK someone else has had the FreeMiNT kernel up and running on some coldfire evaluation board.. Opensource is great.


I just found the site i meant. It seems he uses the Freescale CF68k library, build for emulating a 030...
In the lower half you see some pictures about the eval board running ATARI OS -and some speed comparisons between HADES 060/CT 060 @100?/Coldfire EVB, or am i wrong?

http://perso.orange.fr/didierm/ct60/ctpci-e.htm

<- Amiga 1260 / CD ->
Looking for:
A1200/CF CFV4/@200,256MB,eAGA,SATA,120GB,AROS :D