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Offline Matt_H

Re: A500 accellerators?
« on: July 10, 2006, 03:50:51 AM »
@ Foody

Uh, Foody? Your facts sound like a 1993 rumor column. There is no way to add AGA to an A500 (DCE did a prototype solution, but it was never released and never will be). And Eyetech hasn't sold much of anything in quite a while. Their website is completely out of date and their stock has supposedly been sold off to other dealers.

@ Herbman

Unless you get really, really, really lucky, the only A500 accelerators you're going to come across will be secondhand (ebay, comp.sys.amiga.marketplace). A 68010 chip is a quick, cheap drop-in solution, but its performance advantages are negligible. WHDLoad can take advantage of its Vector Base Register however.

68040 accelerators for the A500 do exist, but I've never seen one and have heard about someone having one only once.
 

Offline Matt_H

Re: A500 accellerators?
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2006, 07:32:50 AM »
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If you put the A500 in a tower case and attach a Micronik busboard, then you can use accelerators designed for the Amiga 2000 such as the Blizzard 2060, and also Zorro II graphics cards.

Someone could probably design and build a 68060 accelerator for the A500 before one of those turns up! :-)