The fastest A500+ in the world

[Gulliver]

I was surfing the internet and I have just found it. I though it was interestingly geeky to share it, if you havent seen it before:

http://www.amiga.cz/?p=874

Specs are:

A500 plus revision 8A1
2 MB Chip RAM
Blizzard 2060 (128 MB Fast RAM) + Developer PPC 603/166 (150 MHz),
Micronik A500T
Zorro II BusBoard
Cybervision CV64/3D

[Gulliver]

Well, I dont think it is useless at all. Expensive, hell yes, but It can do plenty of stuff a standart A500 will never do.

Anyway, I love those extreme modding and tuning setups on old hardware.

[Gulliver]

I also saw between those pages he had an Access, that he even upgraded its cpu! Really cool!

[Gulliver]

Based on the pic of the dev board, it certainly looks easy to add PPC to an existing accelerator card.

I wonder why more PPC upgrades weren't made this way?

I guess, it had to be the fact that back then, the Amiga still had possibilities of a future (1996-97), so this device was designed not as proper accelerator per se, but a hack for developers to tinker with PPC, and get their software going, until better production models appeared.

Today, drop in the market whatever Phase 5 did, and you will still get people interested and lots of $$$.
And dare make a PPC accelerator for Amiga with any speed and you will make plenty of money (That is if you can cope with the costs of R&D).