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The 030 was targeted for a Quake 2 engine port some years back, which got to an impressive amount of progress:

https://forums.atariage.com/topic/234077-quake-ii-engine-rew...

And here is the 030 (plus some aftermarket RAM) running Quake 1:

https://youtu.be/QFXSZlaQ1Wc?si=ZTt_N_nkJxENMETO

The onboard DSP definitely makes a huge difference to what it can do.

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Apparently (from the boot screen) it's a "Falcon/CT60" - so upgraded to a 68060 CPU, which should be more than capable enough to run Quake.

Edit: found it - https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/ct60-accelerator-upgr...

These are still available: https://centuriontech.eu/product/ct63-rev-2022/

There are also expansions for the expansion! People also use the CTPCI to run the desktop on a Radeon 7500. Alternatively there is an FPGA version of the graphics chip called SuperVidel.

Did Motorola ever take it beyond 68060, seems like I've read about an 080 (probably here on HN). Or was that just in the preplanning stages?

Not Motorola (or Freescale). After the 68060 they dumped the mc68k architecture outside the embedded market (68300 line) for the 88000 RISC architecture. After 2-ish generations of 88k, they dumped it for PPC.

There are numerous FPGA implementations of various folks ideas of what a post-060 mc68k might look like. There's also a 68070 from Philips that's a 68000+simple MMU+stuff; definitely not 060 class.

No, but there is a third party FPGA core available which is called 68080, it's used in a modern line of Amiga accelerators and clones.

http://www.apollo-core.com/index.htm?page=features

Doom was ported to the vanilla falcon making heavy use of the dsp: https://www.leonik.net/dml/sec_bm.py

That Falcon030 has not only aftermarket RAM, but an aftermarket CPU.

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