Man, I wish I had more knowledge and experience working with Amiga hardware (A3000 with A3640) to buy your chip adapter. Keep up your good work.
It's not a hard task to build this setup, AFAIK and just from my real experience it involves the following :
- The A3000 must work at 25Mhz. Mine was a 16Mhz model; but I overclocked it time ago so no problem here.
- The best KS in terms of compatibility is 3.1 (of course!); so upgrade is a must.
- You'll need to make a hole in the FDD plate. The CPU tower is taller now. The right FDD must be placed at the left.
- You can't easily use a full 060 (needs a library patched, the one that caused all that fuss in the thread). I opted from the beginning for an EC model, although cool I don't really need FPU and this way I'm avoiding problems about any legal status.
All worked great and I must say I'm happy with the adapter. I think Cosmos always stated from the beginning the drawbacks of the product. Looking for info before a purchase is always a great idea, the lower RAM bus performance is a well-known problem; but as has been already stated, it's absolutely impossible to find a full 060 accelerator for A3000. I already have one in my A1200 and paid a fortune, I don't want to sell one of my kidneys for another one.
