Easy 68010 question...

[Lurch]

68010 - 98% of what you run will not be any faster.

Works great for WHDLoad, but only really useful as some games need it for the quit key to work. But as I've found that's only a small handful.

Playing games from disk, 9 out of 10 games work.

This isn't based on googling this is based on what I've found using one :-)

There are patches on amibay for stubborn disk based games if you really need it.

Overall, they're cheap so might as well. But if you're looking for a speed boost then you'll be let down.

I'd get a 68020 turbo card instead.

[Lurch]

Have a 14Mhz 68030 currently in my A500 ;-)

Anyway even with 512kb 32bit fast RAM the 500 speeds up no end.

[Lurch]

Hen's teeth, sir, hen's teeth!  ;-)

It took me 9 years to find this A500, hopefully it'll be fewer than 9 more that I'll be able to find a better processor for it ($100 for a 68030?  Dreaming!), so for now the '010 will give me something to play around with, at least!  ;-)  Thanks!

Agreed really hard to find, and when you do come across one people what a fortune. Struggled for a couple of years trying to find something. Even on amibay.

Managed to get a damaged card and then get it repaired by Amigakit so was under $80 NZD all up.

But even then it can be flakey, being really old hardware. So was going to go the aca 500 route but wasn't released when it was meant to be. Was going to be my xmas present.

So bought a 1200 and an ACA card and haven't looked back. Well until I broke it, but hopefully amigakit will be able to help out again.

this might be of interest

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Hurricane-500-68020-68000-Commodore-Amiga-2000-500-CPU-Turbo-accelerator-/200868945482?pt=Klassische_Computer&hash=item2ec4b8de4a

[Lurch]

This also looks interesting :-)

http://www.ebay.de/itm/Amiga-500-Turbokarte-mit-7-14-MHz-und-echtem-Motorola-68000-/150968228944?pt=Klassische_Computer&hash=item2326685c50

Theres a hack on amibay that does the samething

As a side note I have a VXL*30 but no RAM module for it so it might as well be a 68000. Not really selling anything until next year though, xmas/new years to contend with first.

[Lurch]

Google is your friend..

Improvements over 68010

The 68020 added many improvements to the 68010 including a 32-bit arithmetic logic unit (ALU), external data bus and address bus, and new instructions and addressing modes. The 68020 (and 68030) had a proper three-stage pipeline. Though 68010 had a "loop mode", which sped loops through what was effectively a tiny instruction cache, it had only two memory location and was thus little used. The 68020 replaced this with a proper instruction cache of 256 bytes, the first 68k series processor to feature true onboard cache memory.

The previous 68000 and 68010 processors could only access word (16 bit) and longword (32 bit) data if it were word-aligned (located at an address that is evenly divisible by 2). The 68020 had no alignment restrictions on data access. However, unaligned longword accesses were often much slower than aligned accesses.