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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: Jeff on January 15, 2007, 04:26:40 AM
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Does anyone have a working A2386 or 486 Bridgeboard without battery damage they want to part with?
Thanks, Jeff
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The fastest C= board was the A2386SX and there were some 486SLCs around (same architecture, slightly faster CPU) - not really worth it nowadays.
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put a 486slc and an ISA vga + sound card on the amiga, and u have 2 retrogaming machines in one case... :lol:
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btw: the fastest PC cards available are PC-on-a-card systems (for ISA of course).
I've had a Siemens 486DX2/66 inside my A3000. Ran Win95B pretty well (64 MB, ATI Mach64 VRAM, 4 GB IDE HDD). But these things don't bridge anything - if you want to talk to Amy, you'd need NICs on both sides or similar. I used a serial connection which was quite a bit of pain.
And still pretty slow in comparison to the TBird 1 GHz that was standing right next to it...
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You can get SBC (single board computers) based on an ISA slot much, much faster then that!
I currently have a Pentium3 850Mhz, also saw a dual XEON or Single P4 versions; but they were a lot more expensive. These do not need any other ISA cards as all is integrated in the board itself. Works a charm. Currently contemplating on how to feed the beast; as it probably needs more power then the ISA slot on a 4000 can deliver... :)
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still those SBC cards, offer no sound whatsoever... so if u wanna run some old pc games, u are bonned...
unlike the goldengate 3/486SLC ones, that can use real isa+sound cards...
maybe an SBC with a soundblaster soundcard built-in exists?