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Offline GulliverTopic starter

The fastest A500+ in the world
« on: November 01, 2010, 06:45:10 PM »
I was surfing the internet and I have just found it. I though it was interestingly geeky to share it, if you havent seen it before:

http://www.amiga.cz/?p=874

Specs are:

A500 plus revision 8A1
2 MB Chip RAM
Blizzard 2060 (128 MB Fast RAM) + Developer PPC 603/166 (150 MHz),
Micronik A500T
Zorro II BusBoard
Cybervision CV64/3D
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Offline zipper

Re: The fastest A500+ in the world
« Reply #1 on: November 01, 2010, 07:20:22 PM »
On 68k my A500T probably could kick his ass as my Bliz is clocked to 57 MHz and tested upto 64 MHz - but I'm missing that dev board.
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Offline Buzzfuzz

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Re: The fastest A500+ in the world
« Reply #2 on: November 01, 2010, 08:52:25 PM »
Nice to see it can be done, but then again completly useless.
An A500+ is good with a 030 and some fast memory and kickstart 3.1 and then it makes it a good WHDLoad machine.
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Offline tone007

Re: The fastest A500+ in the world
« Reply #3 on: November 01, 2010, 09:00:07 PM »
It's no more useless than an A2000 with the same upgrades.
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Offline GulliverTopic starter

Re: The fastest A500+ in the world
« Reply #4 on: November 01, 2010, 09:07:43 PM »
Well, I dont think it is useless at all. Expensive, hell yes, but It can do plenty of stuff a standart A500 will never do.

Anyway, I love those extreme modding and tuning setups on old hardware.
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Re: The fastest A500+ in the world
« Reply #5 on: November 01, 2010, 09:23:38 PM »
never seen this before, this looks cool :-)
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Re: The fastest A500+ in the world
« Reply #6 on: November 01, 2010, 09:33:30 PM »
Guy has some trippin' HW projects; he's apparently got an AmiJoe card (canceled A1200 accel. that ran up to 333mhz, took SODIMM memory, etc.) and has photos of an [strike]Sonnet PPC PCI card[/strike]Elbox Shark.
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Offline GulliverTopic starter

Re: The fastest A500+ in the world
« Reply #7 on: November 01, 2010, 09:36:54 PM »
I also saw between those pages he had an Access, that he even upgraded its cpu! Really cool!
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Re: The fastest A500+ in the world
« Reply #8 on: November 01, 2010, 09:50:01 PM »
Based on the pic of the dev board, it certainly looks easy to add PPC to an existing accelerator card.

I wonder why more PPC upgrades weren't made this way?
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Re: The fastest A500+ in the world
« Reply #9 on: November 01, 2010, 10:04:26 PM »
A500T/060/PPC...VaVaVoummmm!!!!
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Offline GulliverTopic starter

Re: The fastest A500+ in the world
« Reply #10 on: November 01, 2010, 10:06:29 PM »
Quote from: Heiroglyph;588588
Based on the pic of the dev board, it certainly looks easy to add PPC to an existing accelerator card.

I wonder why more PPC upgrades weren't made this way?

I guess, it had to be the fact that back then, the Amiga still had possibilities of a future (1996-97), so this device was designed not as proper accelerator per se, but a hack for developers to tinker with PPC, and get their software going, until better production models appeared.

Today, drop in the market whatever Phase 5 did, and you will still get people interested and lots of $$$.
And dare make a PPC accelerator for Amiga with any speed and you will make plenty of money (That is if you can cope with the costs of R&D).
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