natami

[Darrin]

It should be possible to get >100MHz 68020 performance in the cheap FPGA the replay
uses.

/MikeJ

That should be interesting.  For years my main Amiga used an overclocked 68020 at 28MHz.  Now I use a couple of 68040 CPUs at 40MHz.

How do you expect a soft 68020 at 100MHz to stack up against the real 68060 at 100MHz on the daughterboard?

[Darrin]

@ Thorham:

Thank you for that info.  I've never owned a 68060 board so I've got no practical experience to gauge the speed difference of one.  

[Darrin]

Care to speculate? Anyway i think this is bad news. I was waiting for one of these.

The Natami specs just kept getting better and better, plus the design of a new and improved CPU must count as an entire project on its own.  There was a hell of a lot of work going on here and (in my opinion) they might have been better off producing several motherboards, each one improving on the next, or perhaps taking a similar route to the FPGA Arcade where you can sell a functioning "super A1200+" board and then work on an expansion board to add additional features and turn it into an Amiga 5000.

This is a real shame, but at least the project is still alive.  Meanwhile we still have FPGA solutions for classic fans while we wait.

What's wrong with the name?

Perhaps AmiNat sounds better.