Accelerator Cards

[sim085]

Piru wrote:
Sure it would, but the price would be so hideous you could get a couple of recent AMD or intel setups for the price.

Yes I know what you mean ... and as I already said I do not have the knowledge nor the time to do something like that ... it was just a (quick) thought after all the posts :-)

However it was nice to learn so many things on accelerator cards and more importantly on how memory was managed in the Amiga.

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@rkauer

So an empty PCB costs that much!!? How does it work? you send the PCB design to a company and they send you the empty PCB board? or?

I do get your point however. I started this thread just to get a better understanding about Accelerator Cards. I do fantasies some times of building one myself when I will have the time to learn how to do so; however such a time is very far away at the moment ... if it will ever come close I do not know!

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@rkauer

I am afraid this thread (like many others) will turn into a 'why not build a new accelerator card' type of thread.

However I cannot stop myself from asking this; Are you keeping some sort of diary on your progress? Do not get me wrong, I am not asking this to see when the card you are creating gets ready (I have an A500+ so it would not even be compatible I guess) but rather to know what needs to be done to actually go through a project like this one; what are the difficulties, how to solve them, the various tasks and so on. I think that would be an interesting read :-)