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Offline Jope

Re: Amiga 5000 ?
« on: July 18, 2003, 05:22:34 AM »
Melott,

The 060@50MHz is not a fast cpu any more by today's standards. :-) the current "dream classic" ought to have something 040 compatible but 50 times faster. Literally at least 50. And 040, because not everything works well with the 060. :-)

I once had a dream of someone building a CPU card that had a Pentium or better CPU on it.. This would then bootstrap off a small rom and start emulating the 040 at high speed.

Unfortunately something like this would go to waste on the classic Amiga - the hardware isn't quite up to it any more. The buses are too slow, so the performance will die..

It'd have to be a whole new computer on the CPU card, one that only communicates with the onboard peripherals through the FAST slot. That's what they were going to make with the first AmigaOne, but perhaps it wasn't feasible..

Personally, I think the current way is the best, totally new hardware with "enough" legacy emulation in software. The only way to go forward is to stop looking back at some point.
 

Offline Jope

Re: Amiga 5000 ?
« Reply #1 on: July 18, 2003, 06:20:37 AM »
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Nick wrote:
I`ve seen the Death Vigil DVD and as the guy walked around the old C= HQ he went into the research place and there was an A5000.

I want my own copy of that DVD!


Eh? There was no such thing. The rarities shown were the A3500 and the NYX prototype. No A5000s.