ARM or x86 with FPGA emulator

[ElPolloDiabl]

This might be good as an AROS bounty. Otherwise just a hypothetical.

Has there even been an attempt to use an x86 or ARM as a co-processor for the Amiga?

[ElPolloDiabl]

P.S. Someone start a kickstarter to have OS4.1 ported to the much cheaper ARM platform.

[ElPolloDiabl]

I suppose I was talking about the PowerUP cards, but that usually ends up being a fast computer with a slow computer tacked on.

[ElPolloDiabl]

That speed... is it because of the better memory speed or is it because the core has been optimised?

It's impressive.

[ElPolloDiabl]

@above
You like the PowerPC to program in assembler?

I've never tried, but it looked several times harder than 68k.

[ElPolloDiabl]

I would suggest that the features of a PowerPC Amiga is lacking. It can run a lot of 68k programs, others have to use emulation. Really that is unfinished. So you have to go to the bother of having more than one machine/set up.

Maybe when the current projects are finished someone will try a new PowerPC card.

[ElPolloDiabl]

No. You can run AROS on an old Mac. He didn't mention that was the target platform.

[ElPolloDiabl]

You might like the FPGA arcade or other FPGA. You could get to a 200mhz 060 equivalent soon.