A2000 Mediator??

[patrik]

@bloodline:

Well, some kind of local bus making it atleast possible in theory to connect to something faster using a bridge of some kind to adapt to that something .


/Patrik

[zipper]

The planned Blizzard A2604 PPC accelerator was to have a local bus for CybervisionPPC GFX-card, with speeds exceeding ZorroIII.

[mikey2001]

Whatever happened to that board? I remember seeing adverts for it at the time in CU Amiga and Amiga Format.  :-?  :huh:

[bloodline]

The problem is this though...

You get an A2000... then you put a PCI board in it, on that PCI board you have a Local Bus for a CPU upgrade.

Then you Put a PCI gfx card in it, a new CPU card with 256 Megs of RAM on it, a PCI sound card, a PCI network Card, a PCI IDE card (with a DVD-R/RW and a 120Gig Hd), a PCI USB card with a new Keyboard and a new optical mouse.

Then you have to put a new Power supply in it to handle all this stuff... What are you left with?

A new computer (since the A2K motherboard isn't used for anything) in an Amiga 2000 case...

Keep the A2K as a working museum peice and get a new computer :-)

[patrik]

@bloodline:

This is pretty much the situation with all Amigas. If you expand them to the max not much of the original motherboard will be used. The motherboard will be used for some various I/O like keyboard/mouse, ROM-socket and as a means of compability with older software.

Though there is no need to go all the way to the max when expanding a system. A PCI-board with a graphic-card and a network-card would a reasonable expansion .

And  you have to admit that it would be fun with PCI-slots in an A2000! ).


/Patrik

[bloodline]

And you have to admit that it would be fun with PCI-slots in an A2000! ).

Without question!!! :-D


But I have got to the point where I want my Amiga's in their "virginal" state without all the PC bits and bobs hacked on.
I have a PC for the PC stuff :-)

[artman]

Wow!  What a lot of info to soak in.  Thank you all for your input.  From what I can gather, it's not something I'll try to work out in my A2000, just sounded like a cool idea.  I agree with Bloodline in that I like my Amiga to stay pretty close to the original configuration.  Kinda like keeping a classic car original rather than hacking it up into something else.  Now maybe that A3000 thats just sitting here would be nice to stick into a Mirage case and start from there.  Have to see how much stuff I can sell to raise the bucks.  Best regards...Art :-)

[Crusher]

 

And what would that bring ?    Note Z2 is a bus, 1 slot can use the full bandwith or you can share  the same bandwith on 2 or more slots.

Oh, I didn´t know that they shared the bandwith. Sorry.  :-)