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Offline PainkillerTopic starter

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Hi,
I'm new here (getting back to the roots). Anyways I just got hold of Blizzard PPC/040 and I'd like to upgrade it with 68060, but I haven't found any good tutorials. The one that I found is in French and babelfish didn't do a good job with that article (http://obligement.free.fr/articles/blizzard040060.php).

SO if anyone here has a better article for the modifications needed I'd be very delighted if one would share the information :)
 

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You might want to contact PG (on this forum) as he can do this for you.

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Hi,

I've read the article : he is difficult to translate to english for any software translator, in fact he is full of jokes , puns and things like that but if you want i may translate it for you.
 

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Thank you for you offer I just contacted PG, so if he doesn't like to share the information with me then I'll ask for your translation.
 

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Hi!

If im guessing right, you are from Finland?
Maybe you understand Swedish?
If you do, there is an excellent guide in the Swedish magazine: Azine #4
It can be downloaded here:

Azine

If you need, i have 68060 cpu sockets for sale here:

ebay
 

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Thanks for the link. My friend will translate it for me and once I'm done with my modifications I will post my own English and Finnish version.

This might take awhile so don't expect to see the tutorials tomorrow maybe in a month or two :)
 

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http://www.amiga.org/gallery/index.php?n=1918 , an image I've uploaded here on A.org to explain just this (and overclocking). :)

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WoW thnx a lot for the pic. So basicly all I need to do is to solder the voltage selector to 3.3V and solder the 68k resistor to 060 position. Oh and ofcourse change the 25Mhz crystal to 50Mhz :)

How about firmware updating?
 

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Since the 040 only use half the clockspeed of the crystal the crystal on a 040/25 is actually a 50Mhz and would work perfectly with a 060/50. :)

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Great news, I don't have my card yet (it is in the mail). So I assumed it is 25Mhz :) But great news indeed.

Oh yea this article http://obligement.free.fr/articles/blizzard040060.php

Sais in the end that you have to use a standard 68060 not the LC or EC models? Is that true, because I could easily optain an LC.

Edit: Does anyone know the difference between XC68060RC50 and XC68060RC50A?