AmigaNow wrote:
Does anyone in our community have the skills and tools such as hSpice or similar to design a new accelerator ourselves? I'm thinking of something similar to the Efika, with the same PPC, with maybe a 68060 @ 75Mhz, 2 Dimms for up to 2 GB Ram.
OK, here's a crazy thought:
A CPU accellerator board with an Intel CPU. Before you all start kicking and screaming, let me explain.
The whole thing should behave like a 68060, because it's basically a CPU emulator. No Intel instructions are available from the Amiga.
The board also holds 128MB RAM which behaves like the fastram, and is accessible at the board's local bus speed. The chipram, located on the Amiga motherboard, will be as slow as before.
So, picture a 4 GHz Intel CPU doing nothing but 68k emulation. No Windows hogging resources in the background, no multitasking. Just one mission: Emulate the 68060 at full speed.
I would not be surprised if something like this would measure in the neighbourhood of a 7-800 MHz. Only stuff in fastram would truly gain from this, but still - things would be *a lot* faster.
Hell of a project, though.
