PAK 68/3 accelerator card

[fillosauru]

Anybody got the schematics for that accelerator card?
I have salvaged a 68030/33 Mhz and a 68882 from a Appolo workstation mainboard and would be cool to build that accelerator for my unupgraded A500  :-?

It's a german-designed Prozzesor Accelerator Karte - it is said to work with all 68000-based computers :pissed:

[odin]

PanzerAbwehrKanone? :inquisitive:

[Tahoe]

Here is some info on it:
http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=65

No manuals or anything though. Just plug it in and see what happens...

[fillosauru]

Thanx. Need the schematics though...
btw, the schematics of any accelerator with '030

[Kronos]

The PAK was designed as a project for heise's c't-magizine in the early 90ties.

c't-projects

It might still be possible to order a copy of that article and preprogrammed GALs.

[Xand]

On this page:
C'T-Projekte
They have a file called pak68.sit that you can download. You'll need stuffit to use the file but I think it's what you want.

The description is: Mac: Paket fuer PAK68/3 Beschleuniger, c't 11/93

Rough translation by WorldLingo:
Mac: Package for PAK68/3 accelerator, c't 11/93

It looks like it's just software though...

[Tahoe]

Has anyone confirmed that a PAK will work in an Amiga? You can order a set of preprogrammed GAL's, but they are system specific, either MAC or Atari ST. Which of the two would work?

The other interesting one would be the converter for placing an 030 in an 020 socket.... How about upgrading your 020 cards guys?

[Kronos]

Man, thats so long......

Yes I remember reading the articles back in 92/93, and yes there was an Amiga version.

It probraly needed a special set of GALs, which seem to be out of stock....

I also remember it only having 256 or 512k of static RAM, just enough to put the Kickstart into, so you shouldn't expect a performance boost anything close to what a 030 with RAM would give. Even a lousy 020 will outperform you.

Maybe try this (targeted at A1000-Phönix)

http://www.gb97816.homepage.t-online.de/projekte.htm

[fillosauru]

Thanx. I'll see what I can do with the web address you provided.

PS: I checked it. I think it might work with a A500 too.
    I'll browse more over the schematics the next days, to be certain.  :pint: here's to you!

[Azryl]

http://www.atari-workshop.co.uk/products/accelerators.htm

maybe the amiga community should organise a project similar to these, use paypal to donate research funds to get an accelerator prototype built.

Take a poll for what people want/need/wish ie, 030/882/50mhz, 32bit ram, ide on board etc? so we can get OS3.9 running :-)

Az

[Azryl]

More info

http://babel.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=de_en&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.wrsonline.de%2ffrak2.html

http://babel.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=de_en&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.wrsonline.de%2fpanther2.html

http://babel.altavista.com/babelfish/trurl_pagecontent?lp=de_en&trurl=http%3a%2f%2fwww.wrsonline.de%2fpak3.html

The Amiga users of the world should be able to do something similar, either the accelerator or ISA adapters!

Az