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Description: This adapter makes the Atari clone 'Milan' use a 68060 cpu. It's converting the core power from 5V to 3.3V for the '060. Would be nice to know if it would be working in an Amiga too. The guy making em is reachable at http://www.uweschneider.de Picture Stats: Views: 1876 Filesize: 48.25kB Height: 768 Width: 1024 Posted by: MastaTabs at February 26, 2008, 04:27:22 PM Image Linking Codes
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| Tron2k2 Posts:139 
| August 03, 2008, 09:49:09 PM The 040 and 060 are essentially pin compatible-same socket, same number of pins and all in the same place. With a few gotchas: First, the 060 doesn't internally double its clock signal like the 040. So if you didn't change the oscillator you'd have a 25MHz 060. it would work but would be slow :-) Second: The 060 runs on 3.3V so you need a different regulator. I suspect that this board does the above for you, in which case it would be plug n play. They also made this adapter or one like it for the Macintosh in the Quadra 040 days. You could probably make this work in a 3640 but it would kind of cripple the 060-the 3640 is kind of retarded, no burst mode RAM access, kind of slow even for the slowish bus that it runs on. I'm not sure how the 060 libraries would work, maybe 3.5 or 3.9 would have them built in to be sufficiently flexible (vendor specific 060 board agnostic enough) to run this module. In any case, this module would most likely not let the smoke out if plugged in to an 040 socket, it just might not boot. |
| alexh Posts:3644 | July 12, 2008, 10:32:02 PM I thought that the 060 had many more pins than the 040? Were they all power & gnd pins?? You certainly wouldn't use one of these for an Apollo 1240 or 4040 etc. as the voltage regulator modules for this card are so easy to come by and cheap. The same can be said for any 040 board designed to take an 060 with a different configuration. If it was as simple as changing the core voltage, I am sure that adapters would have come out for every 040 Amiga accelerator out there. I would be amazed if this worked on say an A3640 |
| motorollin Posts:8669 | February 27, 2008, 09:52:57 AM How does this connect to the board? Does it sit in a CPU socket? Or does it need to be soldered? Or clip over the 040? -- moto |
| djbase Posts:996 | February 26, 2008, 09:25:30 PM Well, maybe not all but many have headers for a regulator (like Apollo...) which would be cheaper then such a cpu adaptor. But as you said many cards would also need a ROM update (like Apollo...). |
| rkauer Posts:3263 | February 26, 2008, 09:06:06 PM Not in Apollo 1240. Nor in a multitude of other accelerators. |
| djbase Posts:996 | February 26, 2008, 07:38:45 PM Makes no sense in Amiga 'cause Amiga cards have voltage regulators onboard. Just swap the cpu and set a jumper. |
| rkauer Posts:3263 | February 26, 2008, 07:37:34 PM Yes, it works as it is. But for proper Amiga accelerators, it must have a full 060 on it, plus the firmware mods and a steady hand (to dessolder the old 040). |