Amiga Coldfire project dead?

[Karlos]

Or is the AB 3D engine just the same on both and not even bothering to try using AKIKO?

^ this.

[Karlos]

AGA is a Kludge, same rubbish parallax with 8 extra colours wooo, same sound and a slow slow 256 colour mode. It was too little too late and only an idiot would argue otherwise. Even the 1987 Acorn Archimedes had faster 256 colour mode (and faster CPU than A4000/030 with 8 channel stereo sound actually).

Actually, a friend had a first generation Acorn RiscPC. Was a nice system, no question, and the chunky based display a lot faster than AGA but the CPU performance was not that great, depending on the task. My first A1200 accelerator card (25MHz 040), for example, was considerably faster at decoding jpeg images than it was, for example.

[Karlos]

@Karlos
So your saying that your 1998 aftermarket addon CPU-card managed to outperform the 1987 (?) stock A3000 (A as Archimedes here) ?

Oh, my 1995 Apollo 1240 turbo totally wiped the floor with the Archimedes A3000 By late 1998 I was getting my BlizzardPPC, if I recall correctly.

However, it also outperformed the Acorn RiscPC, which is the machine I was actually talking about. The example below shows the case stacking, my friends system was just the lower slice.



I suspect it might be that the ARM processor in said model had no floating point support though I doubt the 040 jpeg codec I was using at the time used FPU either.

One of the coolest add-ons in my friend's RiscPC was a 486 board for PC compatibility. It integrated rather well with the host system, which provided the emulated display within a window on the RISCOS desktop as well as the disk IO and everything else. Seeing it run Windows 95 was quite amusing

I think the machine was a 33MHz ARM 610. I could be wrong.

[Karlos]

Ok, so if the AROS devs can get M68K AROS working on the Atari Falcon and ARM AROS working on RiscPC I can see I am going to have to make room for even more old hardware :lol:

[Karlos]

@Karlos... It would be a bit weird... All the old 80s/early 90s machines running an AmigaOS clone... One OS to rule them all!!! :-o

Let's face it, the best OS to rule them all