On 8/1/2012 7:32 AM, Sean Fahey wrote:
On Wednesday, August 1, 2012 5:55:00 AM UTC-5, Egan Ford wrote:That *is* exciting news. Please let us know if you plan to do the Stellation 68008 card next. :-)He's banging that one out *next* week. =P Kidding of course...
Actually I did think about it. Unfortunately there is a major problem: 68008 chips are extremely rare. There is also very little information available on the Stellation 68008 and not much software.
I love the 68K. In fact I did a commercial design based on a 68K derivative (DragonBall, same as used in Palm Pilot) only 10 years ago :)
Running a 68K CPU at 1 MHz with access to less than 64K of RAM would be a shame. IMHO a proper model for a co-processor board is the PCPI - separate memory. If I were to design a nothing compatible co-processor board for Apple, I would put an ARM7 there: say the Atmel SAM7S256. 64K RAM on chip, 256K flash, 50+ MHz. That would be some accelerator :)
-Alex.