YeeeeHaww !!! I Just destroyed my Apollo 630 and Amiga 600!

[leirbag28]

Well, my Apollo wasnt working, so I tried to see what was wrong.........I think it was some goo on the pins blocking the signals from making contact.........I got it to work a few times but then no more............so i tried cleaning it with Alcohol, and then bent the pins on the Apollo slightly more outward.  This caused the Apollo to rip 1 pin off the 68000 CPU on the 600, as well as 2 pins breaking half way off the Apollo!   I am soooooo upset!

 I think if someone is planning on recreating the Apollo 630, they should go all the way and make either a 68040 or 68060 instead with a better designed board. One that wont leak goo, and maybe partially connects to the RAm expansion on the A600 giving it its own ChipRAM as well as somehow communicating the Accelerator.

Please don't tell me it can't be done.........Everything is possible and I know this is possible.

As for my Apollo 630?  gonna give the M-Tec 630 (Viper 630) a try.

:-(

[Holley]

Cost, heat, design expenses, viable market.  Thats why there will never be an '040/060 A600 accellerator.  As for connecting to get seperate Chip mem, no point as Chip mem is there for the chipset to access - a mini-dimm slot capable of taking some serious (fast) memory would be fun though.

Having a full '030 is not to be sniffed at, especially as going to '040 cuts down on compatability lots!

[Kronos]

@leirbag

You know there IS a reason why both accels for the A600 are designed to clip on the 68k.......

The trapdoor has just enough signals to support 1MB of RAM at a fixed address, nothing more, nothing less.

[Brian]

@Kronos

Not true.. something more.. Realtime Clock! But yah.. it's sad that the port can't be used for something better.

I would love to see a board that plugs into the traptdoor aswell as over the CPU and Gayle chips and perhaps into the holes for the HD cradle to secure it in place... giving you 1Mb extra chip mem, fastmem, 030/50 (or 060?), a clockport and a way to fit the HD onto it aswell... An all in one solusion such as those found in the A500.

[TjLaZer]

Can you fix the 600?  You could connect the leg with solder.  Well join the club of dead 600's

[leirbag28]

@TjLaZer

It's posible I can fix the 600 by soldering the leg like you said........though I may have to scrape some of the plastic casing on the CPU or whatever that material....But I may not be able be able to fix the Apollo 630