TG68 Accelerator?

[HammerD]

With all of the work done on the minimig, I was wondering if anyone had considered designing a DIY TG68 accelerator for the classic systems (I'm desperate for something for this A4K). Both the Spartan 3 and the Cyclone II can run at 250+MHz... That's gotta stomp a mudhole in an 040. And by gods we need the memory upgrade.

By DIY I mean those interested may purchase a PCB, buy their own parts and whip out the ol' soldering iron. No need for the designer to fork out a bunch of cash building something that may or may not sell.

Seriously, with all the microcontroller and PLD geniuses we seem to have running around this site, someone out there should be able do this.

I'd love to see any kind of new non-68K accelerator for A3000/A4000...but so far no one or no company has brought one to market.  Too bad for us

People over the years have asked about new PPC accelerators for classics, but nothing has come....so that is why you still see sky-high ebay and used prices for cyberstorm PPC's, for example.

[HammerD]

Indeed, replace the old tired mobo with a smaller and more efficient one
Replacement mobos for A1200 and A600 would be nice.

Sure...buy a NatAmi (if it's ever done...) or a minimig+030+aga core, which looks like it will be out way sooner than NatAmi

[HammerD]

This thread on the Natami forums discussed some of the interest in such a board.  The 68050 core is nearly done.  It's not a GPL core though, which makes it unsuitable for use with the Minimig core.

I'm all for the NATAMI project but it just seems to be taking a very long time...and I'm not optimistic they will have any end-user "for sale" product this year.