A600 with a 68010 CPU?

[a1200]

Anyone on a.org interested in this? I originally posted on aw.net but would like an oppinion from all camps as it were:

I have just acquired a number of MC68010 PLCC CPU's and their sockets. I am going to put one into my A600, but I have also bought some spare A600 motherboards, to make sure it all goes to plan. There is a very slight incompatibility with the 68010 from the 68000 but it would only affect a small number of software titles (mainly games).

What you do get is a 10% boost of the performance of the A600 and the accolade of having a MC68010 CPU. This would be perfect for classic Amiga owners who use mainly Workbench apps and suchlike.

Just a few questions:

1: Would anyone be interested in buying a 68010 powered A600?
2: If so, would it be preferred a complete system or just the motherboard?
3: Would you prefer me to buy and install the 3.1 ROM and/or 1MB RAM upgrade or just the CPU mod?
4: Is there a market for a nice (not crazy) upgraded A600 machine? The spec:

A600 machine (clean, not yellowed)
2MB Chip mem
512MB Flash HDD with Workbench 3.1 installed
Kickstart 3.1 ROM
68010 Upgrade

In terms of pricing, I am not wanting to make money but could do the 68010 A600 board with UK shipping for about 20 pounds. A board populated with 3.1 ROM and 2MB board would be around 50-60 pounds (depending on eBay prices) and the whole kick-ass system as mentioned above would be about 120-130 pounds.

Just wondering if any of you had a passion for the cute Amiga and wanted it modded up without the grief. As you may know, I have recently acquired another A600 which I have upgraded, see: http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=2491

I had the 2nd "extreme" A600 project (amiga600.net) which I sold off and pulled the website down some time ago, however I have come back to the scene a little recently so I may put the site online again and update it with more Amiga stuff.

Let me know what you think.....

Mike (A1200)

[a1200]

It maybe too expensive as pointed out to me in a PM, but what we are looking at is (for a complete machine)

25-30 pounds for a clean A600
20-30 pounds for a 1MB RAM upgrade
15-18 pounds for the 3.1 ROM (some with WB3.1 disks)
Just under 30 pounds for the HDD
10 pounds for the chip and socket
Then about 10 pounds to get the machine to the buyer

So around 110-130 would be about right.... expensive ECS machine but soooo cute!

[Piru]

10% is way too optimistic IMO. 68010 is only marginally faster in one specific code sequence (two instruction loop), in all other cases it's exactly as fast as 68000.