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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: alexh on May 06, 2013, 10:11:58 PM
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http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/quaddoubler
Not mine, never seen one on eBay before. Perhaps someone in USA will enjoy it with their Amiga 040?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/200920472359
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Huh, I didn't know Sonnet did Amiga expansions...looks like they just adapted one of their Mac boards, but still...huh.
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http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/quaddoubler
Not mine, never seen one on eBay before. Perhaps someone in USA will enjoy it with their Amiga 040?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/200920472359
I've seen one of these on Ebay, but it was the plus version with extra cache.
I could never get an answer as to whether or not it would work in a 3640.
And even if it did work, at 50MHz it still wouldn't perform as well as a 50MHz '060.
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It works (not speaking of the plus), seen a test somewhere. Principally a Mac expansion, goes hot like h#ll as it uses Peltier for cooling (bad thermal efficiency) and is crippled by the slow mobo memory.
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The Quaddoubler was designed for a Mac but also works with an Amiga.
My A3640 is already running @ 50 MHz. Also, the A3640 slow memory access problem is fixed so it outperforms a Quaddoubler. :)
http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=19993
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The Quaddoubler was designed for a Mac but also works with an Amiga.
My A3640 is already running @ 50 MHz. Also, the A3640 slow memory access problem is fixed so it outperforms a Quaddoubler. :)
http://www.amibay.com/showthread.php?t=19993
Thanks, great work, btw.
I didn't buy the plus when it was available because I wasn't sure it would work, but I thought the regular Quaddoubler would work.
Nice to know I don't need it.
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http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/quaddoubler
Not mine, never seen one on eBay before. Perhaps someone in USA will enjoy it with their Amiga 040?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/200920472359
The Sonnet doubler , is what it is.. just an easy, reliable speed increase. Mine works great..
although not being used at the moment :-)..
Rich.
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It sold for $70?
Crap!
I should have bid.
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It sold for $70?
Crap!
I should have bid.
I honestly don't recall seeing one on EBay, before this one..
Rare??
Rich.
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I honestly don't recall seeing one on EBay, before this one..
Rare??
Rich.
The guy that posted the plus version a couple weeks ago wanted over $300.
Really wish I had bid on this.
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http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/quaddoubler
Not mine, never seen one on eBay before. Perhaps someone in USA will enjoy it with their Amiga 040?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/200920472359
Why did they never do 060 upgraded for MAC? I guess maybe not compatible with the OS?
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Probably just because by the time the 060 came out, Apple had already started introducing the Power Macs.
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Probably just because by the time the 060 came out, Apple had already started introducing the Power Macs.
I understand that apple wanted to kill the 68K line and the 060 would have made the PPC machines look bad.. (because they were), but...
I mean someone like Sonnet, would have been a nice upgrade for the 68K macs and even better because the software and OS were still mostly 68K based and the PPC macs had to do a lot of emulation.
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Yeah, but it would've been a losing battle - if everything was going to be moving to PPC (as it did, if gradually,) then any such product would've been stuck with a steadily-dwindling software base right out of the gate.
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An easy upgrade to the 040 might be this solution: http://www.emulation.com/catalog/off-the-shelf_solutions/production-test_adapters/upgrade_motorola/
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An easy upgrade to the 040 might be this solution: http://www.emulation.com/catalog/off-the-shelf_solutions/production-test_adapters/upgrade_motorola/
Goood.
And it's so cheap! The best part is it doesn't even have a CPU.
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Did anyone test this in his amiga?
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An easy upgrade to the 040 might be this solution: http://www.emulation.com/catalog/off-the-shelf_solutions/production-test_adapters/upgrade_motorola/
Sure, if you have 517 US to throw down on it :/
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Sure, if you have 517 US to throw down on it :/
A better price might be negotiated.
Especially if a quantity were ordered.
If you could get it down to $400, I'd buy one.
'60 boards are becoming rare.
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heh
An Overdrive socket for the 680x0 line.
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A better price might be negotiated.
Especially if a quantity were ordered.
If you could get it down to $400, I'd buy one.
'60 boards are becoming rare.
Evidently so are the 68060s. We need an FPGA wiz.
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Have to laugh when people say that 060's are getting rare. Just on Amibay alone I've seen an increase in 060's for sale.
In the last few months I've seen at least 7 Apollo 060's @ 80MHz come up for sale. (they seem to be around 350 euro mark.)
I was watching these for awhile as I wanted one, and picked up Nova's although I need to get the other SIMM socket soldered on :-/
There's even a couple filtering through to Ebay although the ones on there are twice the price they should be.
There's always CPU's on there own being listed and if there isn't people seem to find them when asked for.
To me there's been an increase in these cards showing up.
There's a few older devices with them in, i.e. network devices/switches.. just a matter of googling a couple of models and sometimes you can get lucky.
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A better price might be negotiated.
Especially if a quantity were ordered.
If you could get it down to $400, I'd buy one.
'60 boards are becoming rare.
It wouldn't be too difficult to build something like that. It's really not that complicated.
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Have to laugh when people say that 060's are getting rare. Just on Amibay alone I've seen an increase in 060's for sale.
In the last few months I've seen at least 7 Apollo 060's @ 80MHz come up for sale. (they seem to be around 350 euro mark.)
I was watching these for awhile as I wanted one, and picked up Nova's although I need to get the other SIMM socket soldered on :-/
There's even a couple filtering through to Ebay although the ones on there are twice the price they should be.
Just seen a 50MHz one with a Buy It now price of EUR663, the seller is having a laugh!
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Did anyone test this in his amiga?
Quoting myself now ;)
On http://www.a1k.org is a person who built a custom adapter for a few euros and it seem to work (needs a small modification to the ROM). Speed is twice as high as the normal A3640. Here is the link:
http://www.a1k.org/forum/showthread.php?t=37900
including the documentation for the adapter.
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Just seen a 50MHz one with a Buy It now price of EUR663, the seller is having a laugh!
663 euros? LOL, they must be. Although there will be someone out there that would probably buy at that price.
If only people googled stuff more :-/