A500 with Vampire 2 on Ebay!!!

[Iggy]

FPGA is not emulation, stop the nonsense.

Of course it is, so that's hardly nonsense.

BTW - Why hasn't anyone pointed out the A600 Vampire2 that has popped up on eBay.

[Iggy]

No it isn't, there is no translation of code going on.

It loads code every time it restarts. That configuration makes it emulation.
If we have a difference of opinion, lets just leave it a that.

Because its my opinion that if its running on anything but dedicated silicon, its an emulation.

[Iggy]

I am in Thunder Bay, not north Bay, there is also someone selling their v600 board. Once they receive their order we cannot prevent the resale of it, if people want to take the opportunity to try to make extra cash then it is up to them to face the wrath of the forum boards

"Squirrely wrath" of the forum boards. :lol::lol:

[Iggy]

...It doesn't really matter...

Thanks Thomas, as the owner of an Altera DE-1, I'd tend to agree with you.
Its a moot point. But we are talking microcode here, not dedicated silicon. Code guys, not some how magically "becoming a 68000".

[Iggy]

Hmm, What would you call it if it was an ASIC chip? still emulated?

No, UNLESS it was created via a similar method as the coding used to operate an FPGA, which DOES NOT directly emulate 68K hardware.
Then again, we're back to Thomas' "moot point".

[Iggy]

I Agree with this one.

As do I, its not an important distinction.
It passes something similar to the Turing test, it appears real enough to be convince anyone using it.