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You know, for some reason I was looking into some Amiga stuff today and found out about these guys: http://apollo-core.com/index.htm?page=products http://apoll
by rubin55 8y ago
You know, for some reason I was looking into some Amiga stuff today and found out about these guys:
http://apollo-core.com/index.htm?page=products http://apollo-core.com/index.htm?page=products
That thing at the top, the Vampire V4 is what they’re currently working on. As far as I can gather, it’s not available for general consumption yet, but man how insanely cool is that!
They’ve made their own “68080” which can run at 1ghz, and that V4 board can also run in standalone mode: read: not as a cpu replacement, but full Amiga reimplementation (all custom chips) in FPGA. I found some cool videos about it on YouTube also, running Scala (the multimedia editing environment, not the functional programming language ;).
Anyeays, your post about nostalgic feelings hit close to home so thought I would share my own amazement + nostalgia dive :)
- hakfoo 8y agoI was sort of surprised that after the PPC took off, nobody tried to do something meaningful with the 68k architecture in the immediate aftermath-- license it from motorola, and make pin-compatible clock-doubled 68060s, or eventually applying modern-x86-style "It's RISC everywhere after the decoder" designs. There was probably a few years when there would have been commercial appeal-- getting a few more years of life from all those workstation platforms (pre-SPARC Suns, pre-PA-RISC HPs, etc.) that ran on 68k-family chips, anyone with a Mac that had software performance-constrained by the PPC migration-- as well as the Amiga enthusiasts. When Transmeta showed itself to the world, I figured that's where their business case lived. (68k as one of many possible small-run high-margin markets)