Poll, new accelerator for A500/A600.

[AmiDude]

Count me in! I will gladly pay 90 Euro for it!
(600 version)
 :-)

[Eclipse]

Hi,
 Yeah I'd be interested in an A600 version for that price.

[alenppc]

I would definitely buy either version as long as it is compatible with the A600! Even the cheaper one would be ok.

[Argus]

Count me in if you can get it to actually work.  The ide port makes me think you're intending this for A500 only?  Either way, okay.:-)

[ExtremeWays]

:idea: Count me in!  

I'd love an A600 version.

90Euro is not a problem.

[Corellamus]

Oh my...

And they say.. "u have to have new comp.. newer parts.. n so on.. everything.. newnewnew..."

This idea.. which has been given.. has been brooding me years.. Why hasnt there been those who wouldve like to onproduce.. old machines.. to update.. or worse yet.. be in the future.. in the present..

I were few years back.. in Uk-forum in which there are A-wizards.. which almost from a scratch reprogram better workbenches than we know..

What bothered me.. was.. most of them are introverts of their "produce".. "we do.. we can.. but aint for others to get help.. from us.. we do this for us only...." or that was the professional.. thought which came of it..

Okay.. well.. i have A500+(+1megchip) with the kicstart..n the accelerator.. (same manufacturer) "new chip" of 3.1rom (which hasnt been installed.. why? no diskettes..) previous one being 2.4..

Some music hassling.. but in the musicprogram.. (don't remember.. memorycheck needed).. Playing games.. (Monkey island 2 n Eye of the Beholder2.. in the kickstart... n most best games.. sniff.. winterolympics (the best)/summer olympics games.. n nitro.. *embraces hours of playing it in nittime through*...) no coding.. too much a kid back then.. (dont have brains for calculations)

I cant say none to agree to buy anything.. im no person to say on amigaside.. but i hate being alone without those games.. Maybe.. none to buuy but a500.. or to do.. everything.-.. to buy all.. one can get it work.. as one's the machine..

Crazy? Mad? Amigist? Barely?

Oh wow.. tears..... darned..

So.. i may but hope.. some guys would make it happen.. classic amigas to the future.. chips.. to newly made.. or like.. starting new line of events.. something.. anything...

AMIGAAAAA...
 :-D

[adonay]

sounds nice if you were to prevail i would like the a600 acc

adonay:-D

[mfilos]

@hppacito

I wish all the luck for making this Accelerator.
I believe that the price is ok for the components.

I actually bought for 90 Euros the M-TEC 630 030@42Mhz plus an extra of 30 Euros for the 68882@40Mhz FPU from www.animart.pl
I believe that they may have a few spares left.

Congratulations for these efforts!

[MrZammler]

I'm in too, 90 euros for the A600 version.

[drbytes]

@hppacito

Count me in for the A600 One with Ethernet and flash chip:) I like the ethernet option so we can use the pcmcia port for other expansions :-D

I hope you succeed!

[hppacito]

Here I uploaded a photo of the newly arrived EC020s:

Joto !

[Oli_hd]

Mmmm a tray of Amiga CPU's  :knuddel:

[mr_a500]

The last time I saw this thread, there was talk of Coldfire and 128Mb RAM and now it's down to 16Mhz 020 and 6Mb. I've already got a 33Mhz 020 and 8Mb RAM in my A500, so I guess I won't be getting one. I was hoping for at least a 50Mhz 030 and 32Mb RAM. Oh, the tragedy...

I was also thinking in replacing the original Kickstart with a 32 bit version (read, with 4x8 bit epros or 2x16 bit eproms), for even faster access.

Good idea. The Viper 520 card I have has the 32 bit A1200 ROMs and it is more than twice as fast as the 16 bit ROM in the original slot. (ROM on Viper is switchable)

The IDE interface should be 2.5" to allow internal 2.5" HD or CF (through IDE to CF adapter) - not 3.5".

An internal fan could be added onto it, but the 68ec020 is pretty cool unless overclocked (like in the Apollo 1220...28MHz...a bit warm to the touch).

There's no need for a fan on the 68EC020. Even after 8 hours use, my 33Mhz 020 is barely warm. (a fan in an A500? unthinkable! ;-) )

[toca180]

Hi

I'd almost certainly get the A600 version. Also would probably get an A500 version to replace my m-tec 020 board (definatly if it had IDE (2.5 in) and ethernet)

Keep up the good work. :pint:

Thanks

Robert

[hppacito]

@mr_a500;

Read the whole thread, and you will see how things developed to the current state. Some points should be ironed first for a successful coldfire implementations. If you have a look at the coldfire 68k emulation layer (68klib) you will notice the huge overhead  that it has. I'm not sure if even a 200MIPS proc can deliver 10MIPS of pure 68k code. (V4). I'm still studing the possibility of a "dynamo-like" emulator on V2 cores. That could be a way to go. OTH a 020 board is not  bad at all, especially if is packet with some goodies (eth, 32-bit ROM, 3 cycle memory access). I would really love to see how a DRAM based accelerator performs against a 3-cycle RAM accelerator. I hope this will have a lead.
I'm currently doing my proto with 70ns SRAM, but final boards will use 55ns mem, enabling some overclock (maybe 18MHz) that should be quite interesting compared to other 020 or 030 accs, and super fast logic. The only advantage a 030 has over the 020 are the not-used MMU and the higher clocks available. I don't know how much the caches do being so small, someone may be can post some benches with and without caches.

[dreadwin]

I'm interested in one for my 2000!