Sign of life of Apollo FPGA project

[wawrzon]

already a bit better than 106mhz clocked 060 here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ug4_yh3Q288

[wawrzon]

another update:
http://majsta.com/
few developer boards delivered, new extended design, production run soon.

[wawrzon]

all for A600

i too do not have an a600 anymore, still i applaud this concentrated approach instead of a expectedly failed attempt to serve everybody right away with all he wishes for.

[wawrzon]

his hope is that Apollo will become defacto standard CPU core for Amiga, and that others will license his core for their acc card products.

even though im rather for open source (for security reasons) i would have nothing against if gunnar succeeds with his core even if others would have to license it. i have my doubts about extensions and establishing new standards, but thats another matter.

[wawrzon]

A single standard is good but one man making all the decisions for it is not. I would hope that those licensing the product would receive the source code with some ability to make changes.

people behind apollo core, be it gunnar or whomever, are making their choices, and thats their own right. if these choices will become standard depends on many factors, but also on social dynamics similar to what you might thought of as "free market" or "delivery contra demand". i thought this is sympathetic to you, since if the standard occures to be good it may be successful, and then the authors dont have much interest to keep it back. to me its strange that exactly you are calling here for "state control"

Gunnar has been known to change his mind and plans though.

im fine with this attitude. i consider this flexible. remember the long quarrel about movep and that it finally got implemented without any further discussion. questioning and reconsidering is genuinely positive, and people who appear stubborn, may not be really that much as they appear.

[wawrzon]

all in all i understand that one can have personal issues here, but why do we need to talk this approach bad while it is apparently progressing. i dont even have an a600 any more, as i said, to jump right in. but i fail to see why one would have to be disappointed that something gets developed, even if he doesnt intend to use it.

[wawrzon]

an update:
http://kipper2k.com/vampire/v3003_x15_SysInfo.jpg
ah, seems bringup page has been updated as well:
http://apollo-core.com/bringup/index2.htm
pity we have no backup for detailed comparison, seems the core gets clocked at a higher speed.