68K box with some custom chips in FPGA would be very cool though
I wish I had spent more time studying hardware and software to better understand what the limits of FPGA technology really are. If it is possible to design an architecture with muliple CPUs (multiple 68K in FPGA), FPU and a lot of fast ram to serve all CPUs, one could probably design a really fast Amiga. Amiga is already a multiprocessor design and MiniMig project proved it that it is possible to implement the entire ECS chipset on a single FPGA chip. Now, it is imaginable that a better sound chip, a better graphics chip, a more poweful blitter could also be implemented in FPGA (maybe more than one FPGA).
Like I said, I do not know the (speed) limits of FPGA but the idea of maintaining a hardware design in software sounds like a very cool and flexible approach because no custom hardware would ever be needed, which means the computer could go on and on and on... regardless of who is producing it.
persia wrote:
Which is *not* a 68K box... There's nothing more worthless than a generic 68K box.
