Joined: 13-Mar-2003 Posts: 1441
From: Somerset, UK
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And if you were going to use Zorro cards like the Flyer you would also need a video slot for the Video Toaster card that the Flyer requires to work.
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Unless there is an optional Bridgeboard that plugs into a Xorro Slot which provides the mechanics for zorro slot and also the video slot with xena providing the classic resources required. ???
Joined: 24-Oct-2003 Posts: 3205
From: Maryland, USA
I'm only half way through the first thread so hopefully I'm not duplicating too much.
I've been trying to find a chip I have laying around to compare to the one in the kindof back-right corner of the pic near the battery. I suspect but can't find my example to confirm.
Other clues: Heatsink mounting screw holes. Anyone recognize that size/pattern? Is that meaningful, or just a convenient reuse of easily obtainable PC parts, even though that may be way more heatsink than required for this CPU?
PCI-Express slots. A number of them. They must have used a PCI-Express switch for PowerPC for that many of them, may not give much real clue about which PPC SOC was used. Though I don't see a switch chip, maybe hiding under the "Not Yet" box.
Two banks of RAM. The 8610 only has one controller, 8640/8641 have two memory controllers. So I'd guess 8640/8641. (which are very similar, 8640 sounds like a lower power version of 8641)
Recent hints of multi-CPU support coming also support the 8640/8641 dual-core.
I am of course ignoring AMCC chips above, I don't know as much about them, but don't consider them high-performance as 8640, so that's what I hope for. Maybe Titan, but that still seems new enough to not be as likely. I don't know much about Freescale's QorIQ chips either.
Looks like a Xilinx FPGA behind the PCI white slots. I like FPGAs. Hopefully it's big/fast enough and connected to useful connections to do something cool.
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Something tells me there'll be plenty of second-hand SAMs available shortly
When it has Update 1 installed, I honestly can't see much reason to sell the my 667Mhz Sam: It does most things I want of it well enough (excluding software-only issues like AmiCygnix not being hardware accelerated & hence slow scrolling on *any* CPU). And what you'd get selling a Sam may not make a huge dent in the price of this new motherboard (think I'd rather have both Sam AND this new system).
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Slightly off topic but Amiga Future 82 has been put back from the 5th January until 15th and the front cover has been replaced by a coming soon screen. Maybe they are going to fit something in about an ambitious project. Also the review for 4.1 update 1 was due for this issue.
Last edited by Amiga1200Mark on 03-Jan-2010 at 09:11 PM.
Amiga Inc. was saying the "New High End" boards a few years back were going to use the PA6T 1682M, so maybe the dude working on that actually did some work and after the lawsuit is able to work with Hyperion?
Anyone know a price on the PA6T 1682M?? All I could find was $700 for engineering samples which doesn't mean much.
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Joined: 4-Mar-2005 Posts: 574
From: Budapest, Hungary
Well, while the CPU is sounds to be very powerful, we will have a powerful GPU as well, I can only imagine something backward compatibility helper like an AGA/Copper HW emulator to avoid SW emulation. I don't see any other reason to design extra parts on the hardware for more power or whatever...
stupid question from my side - for my unterstanding... this new hardware is done by "a-eon technology" which is not "hyperion". the "MAP" is hyperions "project".
so what exactly is the MAP now? is it the adoption of os4.x to multi core? or smth else?
Joined: 30-Jul-2003 Posts: 592
From: California, USA
Ok, here is my wild guess.
A single core PPC processor as the main processor which drives some multiprossor chip like XMOS or similiar. Xena is a programmable chip which acts as some sore of abotrator between the multiprossing chips and can be customized / controlled via a program residing on a CF card in the CF card slot.
Hey, I had to get one guess in before the anwser provided.
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