Smaller, energy efficient turbo card for A1200

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Anyone got the link for the 100Mhz Falcon '060 board?

RE. SCSI: It's a pain sometimes but it allows 7 devices to be used at very fast speeds without pestering the CPU.

Scanning and CD burning are probably best done on SCSI. That's what the industry uses.

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Interesting that there is a parallel 68k computing universe taking place with the Atari Falcon going 100Mhz '060/SDRAM...

:-D

What kind of software are Falcon users meddling with these days? Any famous apps/games?

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alexh: You owe shoggoth a drink. May I reccomend this fine vintage from my cellar?



EDIT: The Falcon sounds a real interesting bit of kit, I'll scour the web for more info!

As for energy efficent accelerators I'd say a Blizzard 1260 with 16MB SIMM would be least hungry. The '060 is 3.3v as opposed to the 5v '030 and '040. Not only is the voltage lower but it doesn't require an energy sapping (and noisy!) fan to cool it.

A newer SIMM of 16MB or more may well have 4k refresh DRAM chips which are less energy guzzling than older SIMMs using 1k or 2k DRAMs (although 1k/2k DRAMs have higher refresh speeds - 16ms/32ms vs 64ms). Laptops of the time would have used 4k refresh DRAMs.

Going up to 128MB/256MB though would probably be eating into the power!

;-)