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I think one of the most sought of stuff in the Amiga community are Accelerator Cards. Everyone wants an accelerator cards but few can justify such a high expense for such old hardware. Every now and then someone (including me) asks the question why we don’t have new accelerator cards. The answer is usually always the same; that is that it is not economically feasible to design and build such hardware because there is no market for it.

I tended to agree with this position and relied mostly on the hope that some day there was going to be some home-brew “hobby project” that would achieve this. However a few days ago I came back to amiga.org and learned about the ACA 630/25 and the ACA 1230/28. This I learnt is new hardware produced by Indivision (Jens?). Also, to me, these seem to be new designs rather then just a re-launch of some old design (although not sure on this).

Therefore at this point; is it still unfeasible to create to design and produce an accelerator card for the A500/2000 and make a profit out of it?
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Re: A500/200 accelerator cards: still unfeasible to create new ones?
« Reply #1 on: January 24, 2011, 02:10:04 PM »
Quote from: Lockon_15;608625
This SD/FF will remain the most advanced SD/FF since it's planned to include basic/acceptable mini-RTG features which ***might*** put OCS/ECS machines closer to AGA look&feel (WB only).


Does that mean that we can hope of one day be able to play AGA games on A500/A2000/A600 as well? If so then really that would be one hell of an add on to my current setup :) That said, for now I would be more then happy with just an 020 or better 030 accelerator card with plenty of memory and possible IDE controller. More then that would be a great bonus :)
 

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Re: A500/200 accelerator cards: still unfeasible to create new ones?
« Reply #2 on: January 26, 2011, 10:57:32 PM »
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I gleaned these preliminary specs from the A1k thread about ACA520.


is this true? we can expect this uprade by March 2011? so soon!! :)
 

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Re: A500/200 accelerator cards: still unfeasible to create new ones?
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2011, 09:58:04 AM »
So correct me if I am wrong; out of the box this accelerator card is planned to have a 14 MHz 68020 and the option to add 8MB of FastRAM. Am I right? If so, then, the A1200 adapter (which I understand will allow A1200 accelerator cards to be used with the A500/A500+/A1000/A2000) will allow the use of let say a 68060 CPU with an A500+?