Hit the thread or read the important bits Jens wrote on the forum below!

Although it’s floating-point-less (if that’s the “bad joke” you wanted to throw – pardon the question from a German), I don’t know of any useful software that requires an FPU these days. If you want to render something with an Amiga, you either go ‘060 or emulation, but not ‘030.

I created these cards because I was amazed about the prices that A1200 memory expansions go for on eBay. The goal was to make an accelerator at the price of a memory expansion. Now that 72-pin SIMM sockets are more expensive than SD-Ram memory chips (and hardly available RoHS-compliant), a new logic design was required. I have access to brand new Winbond 200MHz SD-Rams (AFAIK, I’m the first in Europe who has them in quantities), and I wanted to play with them.

To take advantage of 3.3V rams in a 5V system, you need 5V-tolerant drivers between the voltage domains. The drivers I’m using have a guaranteed propagation delay for up to 50pF capacitive load. If I add the pin capacity of the translators, the data bus drivers and the CPU to the trace capacity of the board, I end up barely below 50pF, so the 2-cycle access that I use here is within spec. If an FPU would be on the data bus as well, I’d have to add another waitstate to the memory timing, which would add up to 4 waitstates for a cache line burst, which is currently 2-1-1-1. Although my target was never “high performance”, the 28MHz-A1200 version (which is the only functional model at the moment) is probably the fastest non-static mem 28-MHz-68030 ever made for the Amiga.

Great news!

Amongst sugestions of water cooled Core I7, PPC/68k/x86/SDRAM and 060 boards for 100 euro there was actually a few good sugestions.

Most opionions pointed towards a new turbocard for the A1200, and on a1k.org Jens of Individual computers started a thread in the German language with the title “Neue 030 Turbokarte für Amiga 1200″

I know that little German language that:

“Neue” means new
“030″ mean o-drei-o
“Türbokarte” means faster CPU for the Amiga
“für” means for
Amiga is Amiga and 1200 is 1200. .. so there you have it, you be the better german language knowing person to decide what that means, he also mentions SDRAM.. lol good times ahead..!

Find out yourself the truth about the future of the Amiga turbo-cards at a1k.org thread!

For years they have provided pictures from the gatherings on their site where we can find images from a recent gathering called Van Pong Tot Playstation (crazy name, makes no sence to me, but then again I am a Swedish Viking and not from the Netherlands   ) which was a retro game and computer show.

Scroll down on this page and enjoy some retro mania pictures including some old school Amiga and C64 action!

Check out more pics from Commodore meetings

 amiga-news.de writes:

(machine translated from German)

“In recent weeks we have many inquiries about our plans in view of the publication of AmigaOS 4 Classic. Thank you for your interest and all of this feedback. Everything we currently [public] can say is that our development team with very the preparation of new hardware products for the Classic Amiga is employed, the full potential of AmigaOS 4 show. 2008 will be a very interesting and fruitful year for Classic Amiga users. ”

 Positive news, but what about Dragon?

 Read the original post in German language at amiga-news.de

http://www.amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-2007-12-00116-DE.html

A couple of days ago some guy leaked an ISO claiming it was an early Christmas gift for the Amiga community containing the key to running OS4 “classic” on the Mac Mini on “English Amiga board”.The ISO file was taken down from EAB fearing legal problems. The poster was eventually banned from the board since no one got the ISO to function correctly which made everyone believe it was just one big hoax

However breaking news shows that with the ISO it is possible to boot into the well known boot screen of the Amiga!

It is not yet known if it is going to be possible to run OS4 on certain models of Mac Mini but people are working on this right now so stay tuned!

• »Check out the video on YouTube where a Mac Mini is booting OS4
• »Topic on Amiga.org about running AmigaOS4 on PPC Macs
• »New thread on EAB about OS4 on Mac mini

Will this lead to AmigaOS4 on Titanium PPC Apple notebooks?

Stay tuned for more news….