Re:Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips
by herio on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @06:25AM
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ColdFire is still around but is also not fully binary compatible with 68k. There have been attempts at making Amiga accelerator cards using Coldfires, but I don't think I've ever seen one that was fully finished.
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Re:Google offers free fabbing for 130nm open-source chips
by cmrdporcupine on Wednesday July 08, 2020 @09:20AM
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It's not fully binary compatible but pretty damn close. People working on the Firebee were able to make it run pretty smooth, there's some things you can do to trap the old instructions and rewrite. It's never going to work for games and the like, but games and the like from that era have all sorts of other video hardware specific dependencies that are even more difficult to satisfy.
It really is "spiritually" a 68k series processor, just with some cleaning up. I like it.