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Football is apparently coming home

So you reckon us QPC2 users are an isolated population?

Let the emulator wars commence

So I have restricted myself to experimenting with 68030 and below, which retain the asynchronous bus.

Which also seems to be the actual most common CPU expansion for all the Amiga models! Very little apart from Demos actually uses/needs 68060+

But, the Amiga A1200 has a Vampire addon, that attaches to the 68020 CPU and seems to work quite well.

It doesn't attach to CPU, it attaches to the expansion bus which has a pin to disable internal CPU.

Forgive me if I got this wrong, but my understanding is that Vampire is not a drop-in replacement CPU; it is an Amiga-specific board, containing, among other things, a disk controller, video and audio components.. The Buffee (formerly Buffy) board, however, is a systems agnostic drop-in replacement...

genetika wrote:When a new “super Gold Card” with a 68080 will be available ?

When you design it I guess

That looks like minerva is running and has tried to print a ram error. And you are generating a valid video signal, my money would be on a failed address or data line somewhere around the ram (bad chip, multiplexer chip fail etc)

Derek_Stewart wrote:HI,

The computers I had in the 1980s are:

Newbrain
Oric 1, Atmos
Memotech MTX range
Sam Coupe
Jupiter Ace

Whether they definevthe British computer culture is open to personal taste.

What we learn from this is never buy the same computer as Derek

Interesting question is on a BBQL are the pixels always square? (also this goes for the clones). No they are not. In 512x256 QL MODE 4, I double horizontally and triple vertically for VESA standard 1024x768 on 4:3 monitor. That roughly provides the QL aspect ratio seen on CRT historically. Thanks, ...

stevepoole wrote: Randomness is a subject of continued research by specialists...

Not really, anything made in last decade has hardware randomness, PN junction noise and other such simple techniques.