NTSC MiniMig

[AmigaHeretic]

I don't know if this adds to the discussion much, but I know if you run Sysinfo in NTSC and then PAL you get 2 different CPU speeds.

I can't remember which was faster at the moment, but I think it was PAL and I use to put my Amiga in PAL to make it look like the CPU was running faster to show my friends when I did speed tests.  Worked without restarting.  Put it back in NTSC and it run a few MHZ slower. (030 50mhz) With a plain 68000 it was just a few tenths of a mhz difference.

[AmigaHeretic]

I once argued that its possible to have FIreWire on an A1200 with a 68030 (wich I still do believe is possible) but I might be told that:    The CPU cant handle or catch up the the speed transfer of firewire and the Bus cant handle it no matter what.    I of course would beg to differ.............there are ways.

Oh there have ALWAYS been neigh sayers.

I remeber, even before Commodore went bankrupt, so this was a while ago...

Parallel Port ZIP drives??  Remember those?  FOREVER people said that there is NO WAY to use those on an Amiga.  The Parallel port is TOO different from the PC one.  It doesn't have enough interupts, blah blah blah.

Anytime people would ask if they could use one on their Amiga some one would post and say it was NO NO NO you're all stupid, it can't be done, you just don't understand how the parallel port works and how the ZIP drive works.

Well, guess what?   I used one for YEARS.  You can still download the simple little driver off of of Aminet.  Yep some guy figured it out instead of just {bleep}ing.

I even used one basically as a harddrive on my CD32 system for a long time.  Just had a floppy that had some very very basic commands (like maybe just c:assign) with that driver and just assigned everything to the ZIP drive.  assign C: Zip:C   assign S: ZIP:s etc...
Worked great for a long time.