Atari Coldfire Computer

[ge...@atarians.com]

Just wondering if anyone here, besides myself, has pre-ordered or plans
to get the Atari Coldfir board.

[ge...@atarians.com]

[Jim DeClercq]

Me two, or three, or whatever. Thanks for the reminder. I think I need to
send them some money. Have already promised to buy one

Jim

ge...@atarians.com writes:

: Just wondering if anyone here, besides myself, has pre-ordered or plans

: to get the Atari Coldfir board.

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[Edward S. Baiz Jr.]

Yes I have to pay them also, but I told them to let me know when. They
said they would. I just saw a picture of the board and it looks great.

> ..
>

Falcon030 with 16meg of ram

[Atarinut365]

On Jun 13, 7:20 am, <g...@atarians.com> wrote:
> Just wondering if anyone here, besides myself, has pre-ordered or plans
> to get the Atari Coldfir board.

Yeah.....I'll be buying one when....A) I have $800.00 USD to spare and
B) When I see how it actually fits inside a tower case, and how well
it runs exitsting Atari software.

Having said that, I am pretty excited about the project! I'm hopping
it really ignites the Atari community!! ::)

[Edward S. Baiz Jr.]

Hopefully we will not a repeat like the Hades060 with the first batch
being sent out with problems. I hope Fredi learned his lesson and will
strive to make it all right in the first shot.

lp wrote:
>
> in article
> 14ff5e53-ed8f-49c2...@s16g2000vbp.googlegroups.com,
> Atarinut365 wrote on 6/16/09 2:57 PM:

> I would of pre-ordered but since x-mas it's been very bumpy unemployed. I'm
> back to working somewhat, but it remains to be seen if its stable. Maybe I
> can get in on the second batch, will see. :)
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[Jo Even Skarstein]

ge...@atarians.com wrote:
> Just wondering if anyone here, besides myself, has pre-ordered or plans
> to get the Atari Coldfir board.

I haven't pre-ordered, but I definitely plan to buy one. I hope to make
a laptop out of it :-)

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[Vincent Rivière]

lp wrote :
> Well this one will be somewhat based on FPGA, which makes doing fixes
> easier. TOS updates and chips done in FPGA can then be flash updated by the
> end user. No buying chips or shipping it anywhere. :)

Furthermore, the RAM will be soldiered on the ACP board, it will be rock
solid, no bad connections :-)

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[Vincent Rivière]

Jo Even Skarstein wrote:
> I haven't pre-ordered, but I definitely plan to buy one. I hope to make
> a laptop out of it :-)

I was skeptical at first, but the association ColdFire + FPGA makes the ACP
board very powerful and extremely versatile ! It could be reprogrammed as a
"hardware" emulator for virtually any older machine. The small size and the
very low power consumption of the board certainly makes it suitable for a
laptop.

Look at what this guy does with an original C64 board:
http://benheck.com/04-05-2009/commodore-64-original-hardware-laptop
Imagine such thing with the ACP board :-)

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[Vincent Rivière]

lp a wrote:
> Although I prefer the Atari 8-bit laptop that I seen on the net as well. :)

Did you see this nice video about the Atari 800 laptop ? ;)
http://www.benheck.com/Videos/Atari800Laptop.mov

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[Rodolphe Czuba]

Bad choice because memory chips are very more expensive than DIMM modules
that are produced at very large scale.
Here they will buy some very small qty of memoru chip (DDR) and pay the max
price !

Very bad choice for final cost !

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"Vincent Rivi�re" <vincent...@freesbee.fr> wrote in message
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Looks like he is playing the game "Apple Panic" iirc.

[Mudge]

On 2009-06-21 03:57:24 -0600, Vincent Rivi�re said:

> Did you see this nice video about the Atari 800 laptop ? ;)
> http://www.benheck.com/Videos/Atari800Laptop.mov

Sighhhh - if only !

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[Jo Even Skarstein]

Vincent Rivi�re <vincent...@freesbee.fr> wrote:
> > I haven't pre-ordered, but I definitely plan to buy one. I hope to make
> > a laptop out of it :-)

> I was skeptical at first, but the association ColdFire + FPGA makes the ACP
> board very powerful and extremely versatile ! It could be reprogrammed as a
> "hardware" emulator for virtually any older machine. The small size and the

Indeed :-) A friend of mine is also going to buy one just for this
reason. I don't know anything about VHDL/FPGA but I think it will be an
interesting experience. The MSX One-Chip became a cult classic because
of this.

[P Slegg]

Does anyone know if the acf will have enough speed to be able to run
a Java VM to some degree ?

I know there isn't an Atari JVM yet.

Peter

[Götz Hoffart]

P Slegg <p.s...@sNcOuSbPaAdMivers.co.uk> wrote:

> Does anyone know if the acf will have enough speed to be able to run
> a Java VM to some degree ?

As 266 MIPS is much faster than the old Sparcstations where Java run
initially: yes.

It depends on what you mean by �some degree�.

Regards
G�tz

[calimero]

On Jul 5, 9:44 pm, use...@hoffart.de (Götz Hoffart) wrote:

> Götz

and will be ACC :) (Atari Coldfire Computer) fast enough to run
FireFox ?? if it will be than there is no real need to have anyother
computer in house except original Falcon and ACC ;)

[Götz Hoffart]

calimero <milan...@gmail.com> wrote:

> and will be ACC :) (Atari Coldfire Computer) fast enough to run
> FireFox ?? if it will be than there is no real need to have anyother
> computer in house except original Falcon and ACC ;)

Dunno. Firefox is in my opinion bloat software. Just look at it using an
older X11 Terminal -- you'll see frame by frame and border by border
drawn ... unusable.

Perhaps Epiphany is faster. Or a browser integrating the WebKit engine.

Regards
G�tz
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[Zoe Stephenson]

G�tz Hoffart <use...@hoffart.de> sent:
> calimero <milan...@gmail.com> wrote:

When I've used a lightweight browser on slightly older machines, it's
usually been Skipstone. Seemed to work out pretty well, but it does
involve having GTK on the system.

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[Edward S. Baiz Jr.]

I thought the Coldfire will be running at 400 MIPS. At least, that is
what is in the docs.

[Edward S. Baiz Jr.]

That would be nice if the Coldfire could run FireFox. If so, I would
use that as my browser instead of Highwire (good program, but needs
Java support and the ability to do online buying/banking). Are we
talking about a Mint version of Firefox or a Linux version? I have the
latest version of Linux for the 68000 series on DVD. Had it working
fine on the Hades060 before it went bye-bye.

calimero wrote:
>
> On Jul 5, 9:44 pm, use...@hoffart.de (G�tz Hoffart) wrote:

>> P Slegg <p.sl...@sNcOuSbPaAdMivers.co.uk> wrote:
>> > Does anyone know if the acf will have enough speed to be able to run
>> > a Java VM to some degree ?
>>
>> As 266 MIPS is much faster than the old Sparcstations where Java run
>> initially: yes.
>>
>> It depends on what you mean by �some degree�.
>>
>> Regards
>> G�tz
>

> and will be ACC :) (Atari Coldfire Computer) fast enough to run
> FireFox ?? if it will be than there is no real need to have anyother
> computer in house except original Falcon and ACC ;)

[Vincent Rivière]

Edward S. Baiz Jr. (Gamer) wrote:
> I thought the Coldfire will be running at 400 MIPS. At least, that is
> what is in the docs.
>
> G�tz Hoffart wrote:
>> P Slegg <p.s...@sNcOuSbPaAdMivers.co.uk> wrote:
>> As 266 MIPS is much faster than the old Sparcstations where Java run
>> initially: yes.

The ColdFire MCF5474 processor (the one that will be on the ACP computer)
runs at 266 MHz for ~400 MIPS.

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