PowerUP Prototype

[darksun9210]

holy crap thats cool. collectors piece if ever there was one.

yeah the standard powerup software should work with it. also the warpOS installation has the software for it too. it asks what board you have, either the Cyberstorm PPC, the blizzard PPC, or the developers board.

thing that i would be interested in knowing is if the dev board will work in an A2000 piggy backed on a Blizzard 2040/60. if it does then if someone can reverse engineer the board, we could have PPC boards for any machine with an 040/060 slot. heh, PPC A500 machine anyone? just need to find a prgressive peripherals 040 :-) (and preferably a bit more chunky than a 150Mhz 604e). the only drawback being is that you still have no external level 2 cache, and you are limited by the ram speed of the host machine/accelerator.

could you plug a PPC dev board into a cyberstormPPC and have a dual PPC system? mwahahahaha

[darksun9210]

hmmm. looking at the pictures provided by lemmink (cheers bud i would guess that the PPC voltage is provided by the host card and the floppy power is for the fan. i don't recognise any voltage regulator IC's there, and the lack of capacitors is a bit of a clue i suppose, but i'm no expert in electronics...

so its a 3x multiplyer, off of the 680x0 clock, and it pulls the voltage off of the CPU as well.. so it MUST have to sit in an 060 socket i guess...

the only other thing is that i imagine the warpOS HAL has been built for the A4000's memory addressing and access. i don't know how similar this is to the Blizzard 2060's memory layout...

its not the hardware thats the problem, that can be tweeked. its just rebuilding the WapOS kernal i wouyld find a little daunting.  :-o

even if it just runs in your A4000, have fun!  :-)