ACA 500 accelerator www.amigakit.com

[QuikSanz]

The only person designing accelerators at the moment is Jens Schoenfeld, and he's not interested in 68060s for various reasons... particularly because a new one would almost certainly lose him money and take years of his life. Interfacing a 68060 into an Amiga is far more difficult than a 68030.
If you need an acccelerator of that speed get one on eBay or Amibay- it'll be expensive but no more than a new one would be.

Back on topic....

Congrats to AmigaKit and Jens who I believe designed this rather ingenious piece of kit! Great for rejuvenating an A500!

I have a Cyberstorm Mk3 060 in the A4000T already, the one for my A2000 died. The thought of a 060@100Mhz, faster bus and ram is attractive, with SATA would be killer.

Chris

[spirantho]

Obviously missed the recent Elbox announcement, the recent pics from all those German groups and their homebrew accelerators, and a few others... but hey, competition is a good thing, I'd be more concerned is the Amiga market big enough to sustain all this development?  LOL :crazy:

I know of the FPGA A600 accelerator,  which looks like it has potential, but I'm talking of full commercial products which can be bought from shops, rather than homebrew (though I hope he does get them sold at retail because it looks great!)

What is this Elbox announcement? With their track record though I'll believe it when I see it (after their announcements of Coldfire, SharkPPC etc.)

What other accelerators are there?

[glitch]

Would this work on an A1000 as well?

[Astral]

Would this work on an A1000 as well?

Who knows? Elbox? I am sure if it does officially fit, they will make it known.

Electrically it's very probable it will work. Mechanically it would be hit and miss I'd say. If this is the case I am sure a 68000 socket relocator would do the trick...

[Kronos]

What other accelerators are there?

Zeus -> highly overclocked PLCC-68000 with lots of extras
"Matze Turbo + IDE" 14MHz 68000 or 010  with 4MB + non autoboot ID on seperate board
Protein -> 14MHz 68000 or 010 8MB RAM and A600 style IDE in THT

Possible futures:

"Protein2" -> some 68020
"Matze-Monster-Card" -> 68030 + Picasso2-clone

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

Protein -> 14MHz 68000 or 010 8MB RAM and A600 style IDE in THT

That's one of the ones I was thinking of.  Couldn't recall the name, thanks!  Love the pic of the assembly line production, here:

http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=65943

And the Elbox announcement is at the top of the amiga.org news right now.  

[spirantho]

And the Elbox announcement is at the top of the amiga.org news right now.  

I'm the sort of person who will spend 20 minutes looking for a pair of pliers before finding them directly in front of me in plain sight.
I can see it now, though.... it's hidden below another news announcement.

Does look good, but again it's just a 68030, much simpler than an 060.