Amiga Card PPC developing

[AeroMan]

Eerrr.... What about a cheap and good Microcontroller ? MPC5200 or AMCC440EPx...

Have you seen MPC5121e ? Looks really nice  :-D

I would not go for a G5 monster attached in an old Amiga, but a 20 bucks microcontroller at 760MIPS would give me a lot of fun.

Going for a bigger PPC would be nice to a brand new machine, in a tower, etc...

May I dream, at least ?

[AeroMan]

orange wrote:
sounds interesting, but there is also need for PPC graphics card. OS4 on AGA is just too slow. (and we all know the price of bvision et al)

The MPC5121e has built in graphics and sound  :-D  

[AeroMan]

I Fully agree with you !

You will have some other advantages also, like the possibility of getting faster video/audio/IDE than a physical AGA using FPGAs

But an accelerator is a good start point and an easy migration path (well, not for 1000 bucks...)

Starting with an accelerator is good to make it work without having to care about AGA. Just make the PPC work first. Then you could join the rest on the other side and redo the chipset on the FPGA.

I´m just drooling about it...  :-D

[AeroMan]

Senex wrote:
Just for me personally I considered that much money better invested in a chimera of PPC-SOC, Minimig, AGA+ from Natami and the 68k-reimplementation by Tobiflex,

I just think the same way  :-)  But instead of using 68k in FPGA (which by the way is a GREAT job) I would do software emulation on the PPC. It proved to be efficient in old Macs