I'm not the one forgetting here, rewriting history is not the right thing to do, even if you do it "politely". One year ago, there already was FPU for V2, it just needed some "testing". I suppose the testing didn't go so well, because it didn't take so long before it was clear that the very much hyped FPU would not be... and anyways, Amiga don't need FPU, does it. So started the bashing of everyone expressing needs for FPU began. Then Gunnar came with AMMX, as a sort of "look, this is much more useful!". But there were people also inside the team that were unhappy about the lack of FPU, and there was a rather harsh discussion over it. Gunnar decided if he was to implement an FPU it would be the most awesome FPU ever, and it would require bigger FPGA, V2 be damned, let there be V3... heck V4! V2 owners can use some software emulation if they need FPU so badly. And this was the sentiment till Jari came with FEMU, pretty much proving that software FPU emulation is not desired. FEMU is far from perfect, and it was demonstrated how both productivity software and demos did not run well enough. So again focus was changed, to improve FEMU. And this has now been going on since last summer, and had CLEARLY been a priority. Despite previous rantings about how useless FPU is on Amiga and what idiots people are for wanting it. Jari says quite openly that after his initial 0.10 release, he's not really been the one working on improving it. Over time, more and more went into the FPGA, and from what I understand, it's currently on pair with 040. Meaning that there's still a bit of software emulation needed, which is fine. What's less fine is that this software is running outside the operating system, meaning noone else but Apollo Team can ever fix bugs or do improvements. But I suppose, like everything else Apollo Core, the code is perfect already. Like those libraries Phase5 put into ROM on their CPU boards. Bad for Phase5 and others, but good for Apollo Core. Always.
Imagine if Jari had not made FEMU, and where the project would have been now, what the outspoken sentiment would have been.
As for SAGA, it was announced that the SAGA FPGA core would be open source, but now it's not when clear what SAGA is, and half of the time it just refers to P96 support. Originally, SAGA was the Super AGA chipset that was to take over from the AGA Amiga chipset, being a superset of AGA. Pamela is the audio part of SAGA, taking over for Paula.
