I’ve got one in my Amiga 500 and it’s crazy: bumps the speed up to around 234 MHz, runs in 1390 x 1024 x 32 through RTG SAGA (“Super AGA”) driver and a HDMI output, MicroSDHC reader onboard (plus 44-pin IDE), 64-bit superscalar MC68080 (not a typo), 128 MB memory + realtime clock + 1 MB CHIP. The newest core adds FPU support and they’re considering adding MMU support too. I’m running AmigaOS 3.9... on an Amiga 500.
Flashing of the FPGA circuitry with a new CPU core is done while the system is running, and they keep increasing the execution speed of the CPU with every update. The thing is nuts.
In theory, once MMU support is added, it should be possible to port illumos back to MC68000, since SunOS 4 used to run on that CPU years back. Solaris zones, DTrace and ZFS on Amiga hardware... now that’s what I’d call a hacking project.
Flashing of the FPGA circuitry with a new CPU core is done while the system is running, and they keep increasing the execution speed of the CPU with every update. The thing is nuts.
In theory, once MMU support is added, it should be possible to port illumos back to MC68000, since SunOS 4 used to run on that CPU years back. Solaris zones, DTrace and ZFS on Amiga hardware... now that’s what I’d call a hacking project.