Crappy comparison of Amiga 1200 vs Atari Falcon

[giZmo350]

Check this (very long) thread out if you fancy some Atari vs Amiga discussion/arguments/flame-wars. They talk about the Falcon vs. A1200 too later on in the thread IIRC:

http://atariage.com/forums/topic/29957-atari-st-vs-amiga/page-1?hl=fastrobplus  amiga  1000

Enjoy

I read a sampling from about 10 pages.... seems most liked the Amiga! You can watch the Amiga grow with great add-on's over the years in that thread while the Atari has pretty much stayed stagnant! But CRAP! That thread went on for 9 years! :rtfm: Thanks for the link Paul!

[giZmo350]

Amiga rules them all.

Yeah! We ROCK! :laugh1:
Hey Atari.... make like a fuse and BLOW! :lol:


Defender of the Crown (Top to Bottom: Amiga, Atari ST, DOS (CGA) )

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[giZmo350]

Question:

Looking at the surface of the A1200 motherboard. you see prints next to the 020 cpu. looking like the oulines of a 6881/2 fpu. if one found a full blown MC 020 and a fpu... I wonder if it would be possible to replace the cpu and add an fpu directly to the motherboard. and would it be possible to replace the crystal with, lets say 16mhz....

I have wondered about his for many years....

Yes Sir!

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=69974

I know I saw a detailed blog once but can't find it ATM....
Here's some additional Googling....http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=amiga+1200+fpu&btnG=Google+Search&gbv=1

[giZmo350]

sweet.. i didn't know that.

now. next question.. is it possible to replace the cpu with a proper MC 020?
and thirdly.. is it possible to overclock the system, if so. by how much?
20mhz- 25mhz??

MC020? Hmmm, maybe, But timing of most of the a1200 circuits are synchronous, which would alter other HW operations if you change the CPU clock. I think any clock change to the CPU would require a separate clock (in theory)... that's why accelerators work.

Interesting read here... doesn't really go anywhere and a promising link is dead.

http://eab.abime.net/showthread.php?t=67006