AROS68K and the Freescale Coldfire CPU

[WolfToTheMoon]

If you want to resurrect an old project how about the G3 PPC card instead?

For AOS4/MOS?

Yes, there are dirt cheap PPC accelerators out there for old Macs but it will never happen for Classic Amigas because Hyperion will probably never sanction such a project. It would be too big ofa a threat to the Acube and A-eon partnership.

As to MOS, that should be discussed with the MOS team but I doubt they would sanction it either.

So, pretty much the only choice now for classics is either 68K(OS 3.x) or Coldfire(AROS68K) acc boards.

[WolfToTheMoon]

I have some info on the V5e...

The guy I contacted informed me that the entire motherboard from the HP laserJet that contains the V5e @ 540 MHz can be bought for about 500ish $ thru his service. I'm still trying to find info on whether I could get any V5e documentation.

[WolfToTheMoon]

here are some becnhmarks... a V4e Coldfire running at 200 MHz on a MCF5484 evaluation board vs CT60-100-25(68060 @ 100 MHz!) and Hades 060 atari clones.


http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/3604/kronos2.jpg





More info can be found HERE


As you can see, the Coldfire V4e did rather good in most tests.