[cctalk] Re: Macintosh Plus clone

On Tue, 30 Jul 2024 at 17:28, The Doctor via cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote: It's a fair point. That would be a lot more work but it is eminently doable, yes. I don't know if you have ever heard of the PiStorm, but it works by taking the 68000 out of an Amiga and putting an entire Raspberry Pi on an adaptor board in the CPU socket. To run the computer, the original PiStorm software initialises, pauses the bus, boots Linux, loads a 68000 emulator, unpauses the bus, loads the OS from Amiga media into the emulator on the Pi and then executes it. The original version ran at about 5x the speed of a 25MHz 68030. It cost £50. https://www.theregister.com/2024/02/12/pistorm_accelerated_amiga_pi/ Now there's a bare-metal emulator that's about 130x faster. So, yes, if replacing just the CPU is possible, replacing the rest of the logic board as well is just an implementation issue. -- Liam Proven ~ Profile: https://about.me/liamproven Email: lproven(a)cix.co.uk ~ gMail/gTalk/FB: lproven(a)gmail.com Twitter/LinkedIn: lproven ~ Skype: liamproven IoM: (+44) 7624 277612: UK: (+44) 7939-087884 Czech [+ WhatsApp/Telegram/Signal]: (+420) 702-829-053