Jens Shoenfeld's anwer to the Apollo petition

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I've give you an explanation about some "older" games that refuses to work with the ACA accelerator. They just don't start or freezing while playing the game. This doesn't occur with my Blizzard or Apollo accelerators. Don't need further explanation.

Which ones? I'd like to test them :-)

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What, not even the 100MHz Apollo1260 card which Cosmos has running perfectly stable?
http://www.leblogdecosmos.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/68060100.html

I can think of a few games that aren't ACA compatible.... AB3D2TKG, Quake, Payback, Gloom Deluxe, Genetic Species, Doom, Breathless, TFX, Freespace and many more....

Sorry, did I say compatibe? I meant usable.

I guess ACA1230/56Mhz runs these games better than Blizzard030/50 mkIV or Apollo030, at least those that work without FPU.

I'm still waiting for the names of these problematic games that run on fpu-less Blizzard/Apollo but don't work on ACA1230/56. WHDLoad will help run most of problematic games.

At the end of the day some Amiga owners demand real power, and that's where 040/060 Apollo and Blizzard's come into play. More so the Apollo because I believe that there are a lot more of those cards around (for better or for worse). Apollo's are also faster than Blizzard's. People can only work with what they have available to them.

I would love an ACA1260 with SATA for my A1200, but I don't expect it anytime soon. ACA 040 may be a possibility in the future as 040s are easier to find, but only Jens will see if there are real sales. 040/060 boards are more expensive due to extra logic required to interface 040 to amiga bus and most of people will complain about it being too expensive so he may end up with a pile of unsold accelerators.

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In this case "any time soon" = "not in our lifetime"

It depends on demand, if AmigaKit&Vesalia found a good source of 060s and ordered him a pair of hundreds of ACAs 1260 perhaps we would see it happen. There are more chances it happens with 040s but who knows, I already have 060s and I'm looking forward to ACA520 :-)

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If not, then perhaps a run of unpopulated 060 accelerators for which the user provides his or her own CPU?

I think that a new cpu card should include cpu.