Can FPGA 060 run more than 100 Mhz?

[NovaCoder]

I think it's possible. There are some very expensive fpgas costing thousands of dollars that should be able to do it....

Or to put it another way, has electronic design moved forward in the past 20 years


Personally I'd be very happy too see an FPGA card that offered similar CPU performance as my 80Mhz Blizzard (100 MIPS) while remaining 110% compatible (add back the dropped instructions). It would of course be nice to see a card with even more performance but those extra MIPS wouldn't really get much use.

I think price is more important than performance anyway, it would be awesome to see a new 060 'like' FPGA card offered for less than $200.

The other thing to keep in mind is that because the rest of the Classic hardware is so slow (include the bus), there really isn't much point going above 130 MIPS (100Mhz Apollo).

Come to think of it, only DosBox AGA and NetSurf AGA need more than 130 MIPS!

[NovaCoder]

The ECS/AGA gfx become a bottleneck and then it makes sense to add gfx on the accelerator and/or move to a new stand alone board or motherboard replacement. A faster CPU and gfx will allow you to port more modern games and use DOSBox for older games instead of porting them .

When you go down that road (GFX card attached to the accelerator) you might as well replace the entire motherboard (FPGA Arcade style).   If you want to keep it authentic (e.g. use AGA) then you can do some very impressive things if you have enough MIPS, even the HD transfer rate will benefit if the card had the same kind of memory timing improvements used by the ACA cards.

Hopefully someone will do it one day, maybe the Vampire600 will come back to life and inspire someone to try the same thing for the A1200 and big box Amiga's

[NovaCoder]

Netsurf isn't that bad at 100MIPS :-) What makes it appear slower than say ibrowse is the 68k version appears to try and load the entire page first before displaying it.

I use netsurf now and then with RTG quite useable. Of course faster is always better.

I was just struggling to think of something else for 68k that could make use of more that 130 MIPS

OK how about 'The Curse of Monkey Island', that sucker could really use 200+ MIPS