Yokemate of Keyboards
Posts: 4977 from 2009/1/28
From: Delaware, USA
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amigadave wrote:...It would be great for the Classic Amiga community if new 680x0 ASIC's could be funded and produced, which would no doubt lead to new accelerator cards for Commodore Amiga computer models...
ASIC production costs have gone down a bit since we first started this type of conversation.
I am now seeing firms offering conversion services for FPGA users.
The added speed would be very useful.
Now if we can only get the people promising the cores to
finish them.
Like the original masks, they
will require further refinement.
Unlike Motorola, we can't afford to move to dedicated silicon with too many bugs.
"Never attribute to malice what can more readily explained by incompetence"
