[News] Transmeta don't plan 68k support | ANN.lu |
Posted on 14-Feb-2000 20:02 GMT by Christian Kemp | 33 comments View flat View list |
Black Hand says he repeatedly mailed Transmeta to enquire about 68k emulation support, or the posibility to access and modifiy the morphing code. Here's what Frank Priscaro replied: Supporting the Amiga was something that we considered early on, but had to drop because all of our resources needed to be focused on the Linux and x86 markets. We have no plans at this time to support the 68K family of processors.
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Posted by Hasse on 14-Feb-2000 23:00 GMT | I think it's very surprising that they even considered Amiga (or M68k) in the first place. I really like both of these, m68k coding is the best, but let's face it. The m68k series and the Amiga in particular are very outdated pieces of technology. For a new major league company like Transmeta to support any of these would be nothing less than madness. And how much good would hardware 68k emulation really do for the Amiga community anyway? Yes, there are quite a lot of good apps for the "classic" Amiga, but what we need is some real progress. With the speed Amiga has changed hardware vise the last decade, we really need a leap in technology now. We're not going to get that if we keep clinging on to obsolete technology like the m68k series of processors. |
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