WTB: Cyberstorm PPC

[HammerD]

Ok guys here is a couple of notes

2. NOBODY is going to be able reverse engineer the phase 5 ppc card, do you even realize how complex it is?

3. Can we now start talking sensibly

Agreed, no one is ever going to get the phase5 documentation, and Ralph Schmidt would never give out his source code.

It would be easier to make a new CPU card with a FPGA 68k core and a PPC chip.

[HammerD]

We don't need Ralph's help with this.

And I agree that an FPGA 68K core may be an attractive option. As would a different PPC processor (the Phase5 card uses a relatively slow one - a 603e isn't it?)

604e in the Cyberstorm, 603e in the Blizzards.

For a new board:

FPGA for 68K (to boot the system and run OS 3.9)
PPC SoC like the CPU in the SAM 460
RAM on-board
SATA on-board
Video on-board (if you can fit it like Sam 460)
USB and LAN on-board

Basically a computer on a cpu card.

Then i would buy it ;-)

[HammerD]

Thanks for the input HammerD.
I like the idea of an SoC too. I already dug out the specs on the 5200B and will look at more capable chips (the only advantage to the 5200B is that its e300 core is 603e compatible).
I'll talk to a few people about the FPGA. This may be the right direction to pursue (but obtaining a '060 compatible core would be the main problem).

Two parallel avenues to explore now. Phase5 PowerUp compatible (but enhanced) and totally new. Let see what makes sense.

BTW - Looking at the size of the processor card your ideas seem possible. Video might have to be an add on (but then it was on the Cyberstorms as well). With an SoC everything else should fit.

If it's phase5 compatible it may work with MorphOS powerUP, WarpOS/PowerUP (68k), and AmigaOS 4.1 Classic...

060 in the FPGA is not really required, you could have a minimig cpu core in there...it will probably run pretty fast anyway with the more modern technology around it.  (unless the cyberstorm emu needs 060? - edit, I don't think so, since some of them shipped with 040's).

[HammerD]

im going to say this for the last time.

Cyberstorm 64bit memory no longer has a advantage over my Blizzard PPC.

if Blizzard PPC cards could take a 604e my Blizzard would be faster than a CyberStorm 233. my Blizzard is faster than a Cyberstorm 200Mhz and  has gained another half a sec to close the gap to a Cyberstorm 233.

my PCI/Bvision is already faster than a Cyberstorm PCI/Cybervision.

second fastest Blizzard card in the world.

http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=3417

Regarding your blizzard...nearly as fast as my 366MHz Cyberstorm PPC....VERY nice work!!! I can't wait to see what you will come up with next 40ns? :-)

note: gfx is Radeon 9250 on a Mediator...thus the lame video speeds vs. BlizzardVision PPC gfx.