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Title: ACA-620 incl. CPU 68EC020 and 9+1 MB RAM
Post by: System on October 09, 2012, 05:10:34 PM
(http://www.vesalia.de/pic/aca620.jpg)


Accelerator Board ACA-620

68EC020 CPU and 9+1 MB RAM for Amiga 600

As a replacement for the extremely popular (and extremely sold out) ACA-630 (http://www.vesalia.de/e_aca630-25.htm) accelerator card:

The new ACA-620 is powered by a 68EC020 CPU clocked at 16.67 MHz, and it provides the popular MapROM function, just like all other ACA cards do: MapROM allows executing a Kickstart ROM from fast 32-bit memory, increasing execution speed considerably. The ACA-620 provides 9+1 MBytes of RAM (1 MByte reserved for MapROM function).

Features:

EUR 99.90 incl. 19% German VAT (EUR 83.95 excl. VAT for non-EU customers)

More... (http://www.vesalia.de/e_aca620.htm)
Title: Re: ACA-620 incl. CPU 68EC020 and 9+1 MB RAM
Post by: jj on October 11, 2012, 01:12:28 PM
Awesome
Title: Re: ACA-620 incl. CPU 68EC020 and 9+1 MB RAM
Post by: XDelusion on October 12, 2012, 04:30:33 AM
Compact too! I like that the 600 has been getting attention lately. Can't wait to get mine back from dude man speaking of which.
Title: Re: ACA-620 incl. CPU 68EC020 and 9+1 MB RAM
Post by: Templario on October 12, 2012, 11:46:18 AM
Good option for this classic machines and with good price.
Title: Re: ACA-620 incl. CPU 68EC020 and 9+1 MB RAM
Post by: whabang on October 12, 2012, 02:11:59 PM
I need to get hold of an A600 again. :|
Title: Re: ACA-620 incl. CPU 68EC020 and 9+1 MB RAM
Post by: kolla on October 12, 2012, 11:54:41 PM
Meh, I find these slow EC020 cards rather disappointing.
Title: Re: ACA-620 incl. CPU 68EC020 and 9+1 MB RAM
Post by: lassie on October 13, 2012, 12:29:26 AM
Quote from: kolla;711200
Meh, I find these slow EC020 cards rather disappointing.


I thought they were quite fast. Are they more slow than what is in a stock Amiga 1200?
Title: Re: ACA-620 incl. CPU 68EC020 and 9+1 MB RAM
Post by: kolla on October 13, 2012, 02:15:13 PM
Quote from: lassie;711210
I thought they were quite fast. Are they more slow than what is in a stock Amiga 1200?


No, there's fast ram present, so it probably faster than stock A1200, but adding fast ram to a stock A1200 is also very cheap. I'd love to replace my aging 030+882@33MHz/32MB Apollo A630, but none of the ACA cards can do that.
Title: Re: ACA-620 incl. CPU 68EC020 and 9+1 MB RAM
Post by: TjLaZer on October 14, 2012, 02:24:46 AM
Quote from: kolla;711200
Meh, I find these slow EC020 cards rather disappointing.


Yep, definitely a huge downgrade compared to the previous ACA630.  Glad I got one before they sold out.

This seems like a nice little upgrade I guess.  Better than nothing.
Title: Re: ACA-620 incl. CPU 68EC020 and 9+1 MB RAM
Post by: Crumb on October 17, 2012, 05:23:25 PM
It seems ACAtune allows enabling up to 12.3MB of ram, 1MB for kickstart and the rest could be used by special software (my proposals: p96 driver with indivisionECS??? disk buffers???):
http://www.a1k.org/forum/showpost.php?p=560781&postcount=456

It looks more or less easy to overclock to 25Mhz but it would require additional cooling. It's a pity it's not the 680ec020 25Mhz model but it's ok.