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Re: Accelerator hardware theory
« on: August 21, 2007, 02:16:01 AM »
For ideas of what needs done, read up on teh Frances project.

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Re: Accelerator hardware theory
« Reply #1 on: August 22, 2007, 06:25:55 PM »
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Any suggestions, ideas, criticism?


I don't know much about Frances, never had one. From memory, which could be rusty since I hadn't seen anything about Frances for at least a decade now, thre was a separate memory card module for it, and they did something weird with a couple address bits that prevented some things from working normally, maybe Mac emulation had problems with it. But it's a start for what you're interested in, and I'd recommend googling for more info about it. There may be some stuff for it on aminet as well, but I just grabbed the first link that came up for you. I think I came across a bare PCB for it in a pile of stuff I got somewhere, the CPU module only I think, but don't know where it might be now. It was the long skinny 68000 style though, not the squar one I think the a600 has.
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Re: Accelerator hardware theory
« Reply #2 on: August 27, 2007, 07:43:55 PM »
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Lucas (Little Ugly Cheap Accelerator System) was the Accelerator. Frances (Fast Ram At Nominal Cost for Expanded Storage) was the ram expansion for it.


Oops, sorry. I knew thre wqas a seperate memory board but couldn't remember much abotu it all, must have got them backwards. Thanks for the correction. Hopefully it at least led the OP down a useful road.
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