Author: Ben (mariarita.ifc.cnr.it)
Date: 04-24-2009 18:17
I suggested an ARM CPU just because it's cheap and there are reference board produced directly by Freescale and nVidia that could be used as starting point to build a new specific ATARI "clone" (to be cheap and something different from a standard PC clone, otherwise you may choose a standard x86 cpu, of course).
For as little as 200-250 euro we could have a modern hardware (maybe something like a netbook), so why spend 500 or more euro for a Coldfire solution that need emulation and patches anyway?
As for the port of the OS to a different platform: Apple did that with MacOS Classic when moving from 68K to PPC (including an emulator for old apps), why can't our small Atari community do the same today, since there's no modern (and cheap) cpu that is completely compatible with 68k family?
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