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Re: WTB: 68010 for A500
« on: March 14, 2007, 11:25:44 AM »
I remember getting myself a 68010 for my A500 at the end ot the eighties. I was quite excited, not because of the speed, but since it must have been my first "hw modification" ever.  :lol:
I remember getting roughly 10% more speed in some AIBB-benchmarks and rendering images with Scene Generator and Mandelbrot stuff was somewhat faster too (at least measurable).
 

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Re: WTB: 68010 for A500
« Reply #1 on: March 15, 2007, 12:43:02 AM »
@InTheSand

I always used Decigel in startup. Must have been on one of the first Fred Fish disks. I think it was even reset resident.

Upgrading an AMIGA A1000 with a Motorola MC68010L8 - 29-Mar-86
 

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Re: WTB: 68010 for A500
« Reply #2 on: March 15, 2007, 12:50:09 AM »
Ah thanks, it says "update to the version on disk 18" there. Never used the update though.
 

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Re: WTB: 68010 for A500
« Reply #3 on: March 15, 2007, 07:36:41 AM »
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With DeciGel patch (modified Kickstartdisk) everthing works 100%.


DeciGel is actually only required for _very_ few programs. Basically mainly programs only written with the 68000 in mind and not compatible with any other following 680x0 CPU.
Ah memories, I had a Blizzard Turbo Memory Board myself back in the Nineties. It was always very obvious that there was only little speed advantage when disactivating the Fast-Ram. Note that there were even 14Mhz accelerators without any fast Ram at that time and some people were really expecting to double the speed only by swapping CPU and crystal.

Already tried Interceptor or Knights of the Sky? Nice speed-up there.