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Re:Atari Falcon030 by rob74 on Friday March 22, 2024 @05:23AM (#39788822)
Apparently (from the boot screen) it's a "Falcon/CT60" - so upgraded to a 68060 CPU, which should be more than capable enough to run Quake.

Edit: found it - https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/ct60-accelerator-upgr...

Re:Atari Falcon030 by foft on Friday March 22, 2024 @07:01AM (#39789412)
These are still available: https://centuriontech.eu/product/ct63-rev-2022/

There are also expansions for the expansion! People also use the CTPCI to run the desktop on a Radeon 7500. Alternatively there is an FPGA version of the graphics chip called SuperVidel.

Re:Atari Falcon030 by NoMoreNicksLeft on Friday March 22, 2024 @10:20AM (#39791018)
Did Motorola ever take it beyond 68060, seems like I've read about an 080 (probably here on HN). Or was that just in the preplanning stages?
Re:Atari Falcon030 by bert64 on Friday March 22, 2024 @01:34PM (#39792948)
No, but there is a third party FPGA core available which is called 68080, it's used in a modern line of Amiga accelerators and clones.
Re:Atari Falcon030 by srott on Friday March 22, 2024 @02:39PM (#39793469)
Re:Atari Falcon030 by kjs3 on Friday March 22, 2024 @01:55PM (#39793116)
Not Motorola (or Freescale). After the 68060 they dumped the mc68k architecture outside the embedded market (68300 line) for the 88000 RISC architecture. After 2-ish generations of 88k, they dumped it for PPC.

There are numerous FPGA implementations of various folks ideas of what a post-060 mc68k might look like. There's also a 68070 from Philips that's a 68000+simple MMU+stuff; definitely not 060 class.