Coldfire Update

[PulsatingQuasar]

Great stuff!

I also want one for one of my A1200. Then I also have to have a Mediator with a VooDoo 3. I'll also need a tower then.

Damn  :-)  ; all three Amiga 1200's towered then! Where am I going to leave all this stuff.  :-)

[PulsatingQuasar]

I really hope he doesn't try to get it in a desktop A1200. A tower design would be much better. More room for components and a somewhat bigger board can be used that would keep the costs down and would also allow a normal DIMM slot.

This thing is only usefull for when used with a Mediator and a VooDoo 3,4,5 anyway.

Phase 5 should never have tried to make the BlizzardPPC for a dekstop solution also.

[PulsatingQuasar]

@Kronos

I seriously don't see why running something this fast in a desktop A1200 would be usefull.

Next to the the 2 towered A1200 machines with a BlizzardPPC I also have a desktop with a Blizzard-1230-IV and I can really say; AGA for desktop usage sucks.
I have managed to get 800x600 on my M1438 but it only runs acceptable with 64 colors. It's multisync running at 83 Hz.
A desktop with a size of 640x480 is really not acceptable. Both my towered systems run a 1024x768 desktop in 16-bit color @ 75 Hz on 15 inch monitors and that rulez. The Voodoo 3 rulez somewhat more then the BVisionPPC because I can drag as many Windows as I want visible and things begin to stutter with the BVisionPPC when more then 4 are open..

So the only possible usage for something this fast would be with a Mediator and a Voodoo 3,4 or 5. Then you would get a damn fast AmigaOS 3.9. And I would really like to see that.
Without a graphic card you don't really get a full experience of OS 3.9 and with such a fast CPU; it's going to be better then my BlizzardPPC systems.

[PulsatingQuasar]

Yeah, but that's no fun! I still only use my REAL Amiga's.
I don't run WinUAE and I don't have Amithlon.

And as for a geek toy; An Amiga1200 in a tower with the ColdFire accelarator and PCI slots via the Mediator with a Voodoo and ethernet card is probably the geekiest system. OK then, also a PowerFlyer.

Maybe the PowerFlyer will be really used then and that 16.6 MB/s for PIO 4 will actually be reached!

It's going to be a kick-ass system.