Home grown A1200 accelerator project

[AmigaNow]

Does anyone in our community have the skills and tools such as hSpice or similar to design a new accelerator ourselves? I'm thinking of something similar to the Efika, with the same PPC, with maybe a 68060 @ 75Mhz, 2 Dimms for up to 2 GB Ram.

Would prefer to have it work like the Blizzard 1260+PPC. I noticed both are from the 603e family...

With the design in place, couldn't we contract the boards manufacture like the MiniMeg?

Also, would be great if Morphos could be ported to it. :-D

Lets take away the waiting and vaporware. Lets make this ourselves...

AmigaNow

[AmigaNow]

68060 at 75 Mhz, Real Time Clock, 2 DDR or DDR2 sockets. Would also require a memory controller.

I forget, was the 68882 math coprocessor built into the 68060?

AmigaNow

[AmigaNow]

pyrre wrote:
What if....

Someone made a new version of the 060..
perhaps running at.. uum.. lets say... 250MHz...
That should not be to hard, or what...?

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What kind of speed could be obtained if the 68060 was programmed into a PLCC?

AmigaNow

[AmigaNow]

AMD62x4 would be awesome! Also, think about this... You could even run AROS on that!  :-o

AmigaNow

[AmigaNow]

I was thinking of placing it in a tower case. Dimensions would then not be such a problem. Also, space needed for cooling...

As for what I want, I want a new accelerator that is extremely fast. I always hear that the Amiga is too slow for internet even if a newer browser were to become available. Newer accelerators would allow the regular Amiga user to move up to mainstream. Not having to wait for new AOS or Morphos boards that may or may not become reality.

If one of the newer PPC chips could be put on a board, such as the 5200 (efika), it would seem that it could be compatable with the previous Power Up boards.

The notion that an Intel type chip could be used to emulate the 68060 seems like a good alternative. The board could be produced sans micro, leaving the user to determine the exact one they desire. And with proper cooling and overclocking...  :-D

AmigaNow

[AmigaNow]

corto wrote:
Why an accelerator for 68k machines when you have PPC machines with OS that emulate 68k really fast. Where is the pleasure dreaming about something that won't exist and ignoring hardware that is/was available ??

Amiga 68k computers can still be obtained, whereas the other NG ones are still vapourware until they come out. I was originally excited when I saw specs had come out for the new entry level Amiga. It was faster than the original Blizzard 603e PPC. But when you really check the specs, it's not as powerful as the Efika. (Which right now hasn't yet been made Amiga compatible)

I would imagine if those wanting the Power Vixxen, those wanting the BlizzardPPC, etc. got together we might come up with more than 200 that wanted it...

AmigaNow

[AmigaNow]

Since the edge connectors could be a problem, how difficult would it be to make the accelerator on a PCI card like the Shark?
    And I have been thinking about the Intel type 060 accelerator. The board cost would be reduced as it would have just the socket waiting for a proc...
    Imagine like WinUae you could select from a menu which 680X0 cpu you wished, which would run at extreme speeds... :-D

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