A new GVP-M Accellerator production run?

[wawrzon]

i hear they will assemble a number of those a4k 060 accels too. somhow it is strange, either it is old stock, or where they have all that old parts from? connectors, if not the ics?

[wawrzon]

A plain 68000 is dead easy to emulate, but not the more complicated chips without using a very expensive FPGA. Even NatAmi go to gerber a 060 "clone".

actually they claim to have next to functional 68k softcore replacement already which is being developed parallel as option to 060 cpu-board. but other serious hardware devs deny that such is possible.

[wawrzon]

even an emulated 68000 would have the limits of an 16bit cpu i take it (adress space and such). would be better to go for 32bit perhaps.

[wawrzon]

as far i recall from certain threads on a1k.org the adress space of a4k/a3k cpu slot is limited to 128mb. well. i have no technical understanding to fully comprehend what that means, but from what ive read there i assume one could put more ram on an accel but probably some workaround woud be needed. a1200s are another issue since the accel will be connected to another bus so paradoxically you can have 265mb on a blizzard. tough world.