Some questions after upgrading Blizzard 2040 with 68060 CPU

[Piru]

@rodney37

- running ShowConfig (OS3.1) gives the result:
PROCESSOR: CPU 68040/68040fpu

I also tried sysinfo V3.24 which also says it's a 68040 CPU in the right area of the resulting screen.

Neither ShowConfig nor sysinfo knows 68060 so using those is useless. Use a program that actually knows about 68060, such as WhichAmiga (WhichAmiga can be a bit unstable however, so beware).

Performance measures 2.04 times compared to the performance of a A4000 68040 25Mhz. So basically it looks like a 68040 at 50Mhz performance-wise.

sysinfo is really poor app for benchmarking 68060. Use something better such as SysSpeed.

[Piru]

@rodney37

It seems if I am correct that the default 68040 library which came with OS 3.1 is replaced by a library with the same name which is much smaller in size than the original, along with a new 68060 library.

Actually it's not replaced, but rather you should rename the C= 68040.library as 68040old.library.

The Phase5 68040.library should be called 68040new.library.

The small 68040.library will then determine which setup you have, and load the correct library, either:
- non-p5 system: load 68040old.library
- p5 68040 system: load 68040new.library
- p5 68060 system: load 68060.library

Set up this way, the system will boot regardless if you replace the CPU card.

However, your method of just having the tiny 68040.library and the P5 68060.library works, too, but only for the 68060 setup. If you even need to replace the CPU card with a 68040 one, you will have trouble (until you provide the neeede 68040 libraries that is).

[Piru]

@terminator4

Piru, any idea on why when i run it or click on WhichAmiga it goes gray screen? (crashes?)

Because it's a very hacky program and crashes with certain setups. Are you using the latest version, though?