Individual Computers A600 accelerator?

[alexh]

lillPiP wrote:
Is this a product that never will be released?

Quite probably. Jen's is not stupid. He knows there is demand. However there is something that he is not telling us. Either there is a problem with the design which must be debugged or there is an availability problem with one of the chips it uses. Or perhaps the amount of work required to put it into production is not the best use of his time, economically.

[alexh]

Schoenfeld wrote:
Production of Amiga 600 accelerator completed
It took more than two years, but waiting was worthwhile: Our accelerator for the Amiga 600 is completed. The technical details:

    * 68030-33 processor clocked at 40MHz
    * 128MByte RAM option, selectable speed
    * 512K flash-memory
    * PCMCIA-friendly
    * low-heat design

There are some pictures and details here:

http://www.jschoenfeld.com/news/news115_e.htm

It is effectively the same as an Apollo 630 without the FPU but with a slightly better design (physically and logically). The loss of the FPU would have been insignificant!

Pure speculation but it is possible Jens withheld this product because he feared it overlapped the market for Clone-A? Probably not true. After all why sell one product when you can sell two? :-D

[alexh]

His market has been somewhat decimated by the release of LordV's $40 NedoPC 2008 8Mbyte A600 Fast RAM upgrade