Jens Shoenfeld's anwer to the Apollo petition

[jsixis]

Apollo boards are junk

[cv643d]

Maybe I dont know what I am talking about but my Apollo 1260 @ 80 MHz is rock solid with the Indivision v1 and have not let me down.

Better toss it in the dumpster because some electronic snob thinks its crap.

[Frags]

My Apollo 040 was fine, despite being heavily overclocked, for ages until I sold it.

[magnetic]

Yeah my old Apollo MK3  030@40mhz was nice and stable.. dont know where this whole "apollo are crap" the funny thing is the guy who really started it on this thread never even owned one! lulz typical

[spirantho]

I suspect that like anything else, certain models are better than others. I know my 2030 is dodgy but once you've set it up right is great.... you'll probably find that things like the 1230 are great but the 630 isn't.

Whatever, Jens does know what he's talking about. You don't design that much quality hardware without knowing your DMAs from your PIOs.

[ramparts]

the idea of releasing the jdec file of the apollo chip is good ,but does anyone really have it by now or was just smoke in the air

[A6000]

It was conditional on him selling 267 mach 131 chips at 150EUR each, I very much doubt if that happened.

[Oldsmobile_Mike]

It was conditional on him selling 267 mach 131 chips at 150EUR each, I very much doubt if that happened.

I doubt there's 267 boards in existence.  What an absurd number, unless he was trying to recoup some kind of investment.  :-/

[DutchinUSA]

Yeah, I got a http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/apollo4060 with a cracked MACH chip .. I will probably just hang it on the wall or something or maybe I will send it as a gift to Jens, he can re-enact one of the Office Space scenes .. might have to be short though, how much time can one spend on destroying an accelerator card :biglaugh:

[Xanxi]

Oh no, not that old thread again!

I think that everything possible has been made, and it is very unlikely that the money will be gathered one day. There is more probabilities that i will meet aliens from deep space during my lifetime than i will get the jedec file for the MACH131 one day.

In the meantime, i still have an Apollo 1240 that needs a MACH 131, so if you have that, just PM.

[LoadWB]

i will meet aliens from deep space during my lifetime

Howdy, neighbor!

[Iggy]

Oh no, not that old thread again!

:cool:

Another old thread resurrected unnecessarily.

[lolof]

http://hackaday.com/2010/07/16/decapping-integrated-circuits-with-sap/

From the comment :

"One use for decapping chips is when the chips contain internal ROM, decapping can be used to read it out. If it contains mask ROM, you can decap it and photograph the ROM. In some cases you can decap the chip, disable the protection circuitry and read out the data."

[Snoozy]

i thought the petition was dead and buried- next to the grave housing several expired apollo cards

[mikrucio]

iV GoT aN aMiga 500!

[Xanxi]

Howdy, neighbor!

Yeah, that day may be coming sooner than expected
Look at the numerous amazing planet discoveries by Kepler:


Hopefully, those aliens will be technologically advanced enough to easily duplicate any MACH file