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Offline wawrzon

Re: Can FPGA 060 run more than 100 Mhz?
« on: April 15, 2014, 12:34:37 PM »
i rather doubt the future of amiga is fpga. fpga is too slow (not even as fast as 040 on affordable chips), too hard to program (none of the few 68k softcores is even fully 020 compliant, not to speak of fpu and mmu) and to expensive overall.

if there is any future its with amithlon like systems imho. either x86 based optional with some fpga expansion for backwards compatibility or genuine amiga based with x86 accelerator running 68k emu. thats the only options i see, otherwise we need to stick to what we already have.

not telling fpga projects should be given up, but i wouldnt expect too much.
 

Offline wawrzon

Re: Can FPGA 060 run more than 100 Mhz?
« Reply #1 on: April 17, 2014, 09:06:03 PM »
Quote from: NovaCoder;762661
I was just struggling to think of something else for 68k that could make use of more that 130 MIPS ;)


cube? the executable ive here gave me about 2-3 fps on 060/50+voodoo3. alas i dont even remember where it comes from (perhaps from alain) because it has a bug in mouse handling it would be good to correct at least for those who want to run it under uae.
 

Offline wawrzon

Re: Can FPGA 060 run more than 100 Mhz?
« Reply #2 on: April 19, 2014, 11:27:04 PM »
matt, its been few weeks now that you said apollo core was going to be tested on vampire. no news from that front?
 

Offline wawrzon

Re: Can FPGA 060 run more than 100 Mhz?
« Reply #3 on: April 20, 2014, 12:09:14 AM »
i thought igor stepped down for the time being, so this is the project on part of gunnar (and whom else? submicron jens?) i take it. no wonder they still do simulation, but do they have vampire hardware at disposal? who will provide hardware instead of majsta of all goeas well? kipper or some other subcontractor?

well im not impatient, i dont have a 600 anymore so practically its all the same to me. but after some years of bold claims what concerns natami core there should be something to show off in the end;)
 

Offline wawrzon

Re: Can FPGA 060 run more than 100 Mhz?
« Reply #4 on: April 20, 2014, 02:11:12 AM »
@iggy
i am. but lets keep calm on that.
 

Offline wawrzon

Re: Can FPGA 060 run more than 100 Mhz?
« Reply #5 on: April 20, 2014, 05:43:32 PM »
@matt
sounds good. thats probably why vampires are on hold, hope they will be able to provide the core for those too, but the decissions must be taken for most efficiency of course.