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Acorn Electron Core
Sat, 4 Nov 2017
MikeJ
A little over 34 years ago, Acorn Computers Ltd released a budget version of the BBC Micro, the Acorn Electron. For a time it was apparently the best selling Micro in the United Kingdom, although in more recent years the Electron seems to be overshadowed by its big brother the BBC Micro. This often overlooked Micro is now available as a...
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New Amiga Core
Tue, 1 Aug 2017
MikeJ
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Amiga AGA core stable release
Fri, 26 Feb 2016
MikeJ
I've released a new version of the Amiga core (). New features : 48M XRAM mapped as Chip and all chipset DMA pointers support 64M addressing (optionally enabled in OSD / .ini file) CPU cache stable - 2 way I + D with full snoop. ~16000 AIBB Dhrystones Filtered & Mono audio RTG over analog/DVI/HDMI with hardware sprites and dedicated blitter engine.  1024x768 at 16...
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Cache and RTG operational in Amiga core
Thu, 21 Jan 2016
MikeJ
A lot of work has been done both on the CPU to increase compatibility, and the core to get the cache working and timing closure. The design is completely constrained and this results in a very stable platform Latest features: 2K Instruction plus 2K Data cache with full chipset snoop on both.Performance is around 11.3 mips / 10800 dhrystones with sysinfo 4.0. The RTG...
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Amiga core update - Blitter issues and chipset timing
Mon, 7 Sept 2015
MikeJ
The AGA core is pretty stable now, but one issue which has been haunting me for ages is some blitter operations go wrong and leave garbage on the screen. I've been working with Jim Drew, who pointed me at some source code released by DMA designs for Menace - Amiga Format issue 8 or 9 I think :  This was a fairly...
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Amiga core update
Tue, 21 Jul 2015
MikeJ
I made a few minor improvements to border sprite behaviour (fixes Banshee AGA). The core is in the Amiga news thread in the forum. I intend to get the release SVN area sorted out in the next day or so.....
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Amiga core update
Mon, 6 Jul 2015
MikeJ
I've been testing a new version of my Amiga AGA core. It's checked into the private repository. I'm working this week to make binary releases (and source ASAP) on the public mirror.   The MIST AGA project has received some great updates recently, and I keep getting asked if I will pick up those fixes. The answer is "no" - the code base...
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