BinoX wrote:
The Blizzard acclerator cards got around the problem by having buffered access to the A1200 motherboard, whereas the apollos had no such buffering...
As a consequence the Blizzard's access to anything on the motherboard (chip ram, custom chips, powerflyers etc) was slower than the Apollo's, however it did mean that the Blizzard's would run stable in machines with timing issues.
The Apollos however were technically faster, although could be unstable or just not work on unfixed boards...
I've never personally owned an Apollo card so I don't know the real difference in speed... But my boss/friend/Frank said the apollo transfer speeds were much faster when used in conjunction with a powerflyer.
Interesting info there. I'll shortly be acquiring an Apollo 1260, and it will be fun to compare benchmarks I still have saved from my old Blizzard 1260. (Also, I'm curious to see if the Apollo is as rock solid on my 1D4 mobo as the Blizz was.)
I had an IDE-Fix "Express" at the time, and it made little (if any) speed improvement with the Blizzard. Seems I should better luck with the Apollo.
