FPGA Replay Board

[Forcie]

The purpose of the 68060 board is to reverse engineer the CPU asfair?, so it really doesn't matter too much unless that's the purpose.

Hello, this is André from the Natami Team.

lou_dias and vidarh kinda have the right idea here. No, the 68060 CPU card has nothing to do with reverse engineering. But it is useful in many ways.

First and foremost, the N68050 core is developed on a separate system and is not integrated in the Natami FPGA yet. This makes it absolutely critical having a physical CPU to get things up and running at first.
Secondly, our softcore CPU does not come with a built in MMU, since that would slow down the entire CPU too much to be acceptable. A MMU might not be very important for a normal user of AmigaOS, but a developer might want to use a MMU for developing and debugging purposes. Likewise, if you want to experiment with other operating systems that demand a MMU, the 060 card is there.
Thirdly, it is good having a physical Motorola CPU for comparision of compatibility and performance, both between a Natami system and an Amiga classic and between Natami systems using different CPU:s.
Fourth(ly?), The 68060 card will not be disabled once the softcore CPU is done, but will theoretically be able to be used as a kind of accelerator for certain tasks, providing that software is written for it.

The first stand-alone Natami board design actually had a physical 68060 directly onboard. But this design was scrapped a few years ago when the softcore project started.

Sorry for hijacking the thread with a long answer

[Forcie]

@digiflip

If you indeed are the "Matthew Simon William La" posting on the Natami forums, (which I am almost sure of because you write in the same very recognisable manner), then your posts were not deleted because of any "elitism" but because they were pure trolling/FUD-spreading. And as everyone can see, you continue posting the same kind of crap both here and on the Natami forums. Just use some common sense, act like an adult, and you will not get moderated.

We have nothing against the FPGAArcade, which seems to turn out to be an awesome system, and several Natami Team members do want to get one and have publicly stated they do so.
I myself am very keen on hooking one up to the JAMMA connector of my cabinet. That does not mean that I'd like to troll around on forums of other multi-system-replicating FPGA systems.

[Forcie]

will this board ever be forsale to the masses seems to be taking ages ,it would have been better if people kept it in the background like natami thingy ,then we wouldnt have to pull our hair out waiting , or is this board just for the elite as usual?

Don't worry, we get the very same kind of impatient outbursts over at the Natami forums too.

These things don't just materialise out of thin air, you know :lol:

[Forcie]

Is NatAmi dead-dead?

No, the Natami is not dead. And considering that digiflip led a personal crusade against Natami some months ago, I would take anything that he says about it with a grain of salt.