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Re: Anyone have a 630 Turbo forsale? The upgrade for A600
« on: July 05, 2006, 04:55:40 PM »
You can buy new 68030 turbo boards for A600's from Individual computers

http://www.ami.ga

(Check news section)

They are only making 110 and so first come first served.

PCMCIA friendly, 128Mbyte RAM max, 33MHz 030 (upgradable to 50MHz), unique retention clip means you dont have to glue it to your CPU, built in KickFlash OS4

The only thing it doesnt have is an FPU, but almost nothing on OCS/ECS based Amiga's ever uses one so it is no big deal.
 

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Re: Anyone have a 630 Turbo forsale? The upgrade for A600
« Reply #1 on: July 05, 2006, 09:10:47 PM »
The main reason 99% of A630's dont work very well (if at all) when using the FPU is because the timing margin on the signals is almost NONE.

Jens examined the idea of making an direct clone of an A630, using a logic analyser on several different ones and discovered that it wasnt an accelerator design problem, it was inherent in the A600 motherboards.

A POLL of all the people who expressed an interest in the accelerator was taken sometime in 2004.

Amongst other things we were asked to list of all potential FPU capable programs including games, demos etc.

I think that Jens then decided that given this list it just wasnt worth the risk, expense or added heat to include an FPU in his design.

(Forgive me Jens if I am getting the details confused)