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- From: paulmbto@world.net (Paul Morabito)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.cd32
- Subject: Re: CD32 acellerator?
- Date: 23 Mar 1996 21:41:03 GMT
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- >>Surely there must be a way to either use or make an accellerator
- >>for the CD32's expansion slot
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- >It's surely _possible_, but, at present, there is no way to accelerate
- >performance on a CD32 except through the use of fast RAM (which can speed
- >things up by a factor of about 2.5). Some third parties have explored
- >030/040 add-ons or replacement accelerators, but I'm not certain where
- >these efforts stand, given Escom's at best ambivalent attitude toward the
- >machine and the considerable slowdown in the CD32 software market.
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- It is definetly possible to accelerate a CD32.The pin arrangement from what
- I've heard is almost identical to the A1200.The main problem is there is no
- real market for a CD32 accelerator.FWIW imagine an 060 CD32!
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