Accelerator for Amiga 600 advice

[pyrre]

What about making the ACA 030 without the cpu. just adding a socket for cpu and fpu...?
there has got to be a bunch of amigans having a cpu available....

[pyrre]

ACA630 doesn't have an FPU.

My point was to make the aca 030 board with sockets for connecting a cpu and even an fpu.. If such socket is desirable...

Many of us got processors collecting dust. why not put them to use..

Even in the future make 040 and 060 boards with just sockets...
I got a 040 i cant use as the accelerator is broken....
Would be nice with some new hardware for it.

[pyrre]

You've obviously no idea how much it costs to make an accelerator.

No i do not. sorry for my ignorance.
But when you already got an available board.. how hard is it to just the cpu socket?

[pyrre]

This has been suggested in the past. I seem to recall that Jens didn't like the idea because the support questions would come back to him, and possibly reflect badly on his product.

When you control the entire board, you have control over Quality Assurance.
When you provide just a socket, the customer could put in fake, damaged or just plain wrong chips, and he'd still have to provide support - and if he didn't then it would look bad for him.

That's why there's not a socket version, and to be honest it makes sense to me. Keeping a good rep is hard enough, let alone when people are fitting their own CPUs....

Put that way it makes sense.