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Originally Posted by Steril707
So what are your predominant use cases for computer hardware?
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running development tools that allow me to do my job and earn my living.
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(and what this have to do with the fact that people enjoy emulators and ports (meaning: more options) on their hardware, be it vampire or 68060 driven?)
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The thing is just, that you can run these emulators on every modern hardware - probably faster, in higher resolutions and more convenient.
And 99% already possess such a device.
Same goes for ports - why should you play a backported (often feature-wise downgraded) game on special hardware, if you got a device in front of you, that is capable of playing the original version.
Just because you can?
Don't get me wrong: there is a certain "coolness" factor to it and it is impressive that a 30 year old device can be upgraded to do so.
But is there something it can actually do better?
That is exactly the "problem" of this project: it is limiting itself to a small number of retro-fans. Majsta mentioned the potential number of 10.000 users - and that is absolute best case.
A new compatible FAST 68k ASIC on a RasPi like board on the other hand could target a million users easily.
(but they would need to concentrate on the CPU/FPU and leave the chipset out of it - that could be done in an additional small FPGA on such a board - no need to reinvent the wheel, MISTer already exists)