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- From: wizard@galstar.com (David Templeton)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 68010 in 500
- Date: 22 Jan 1996 15:36:07 GMT
- Organization: Galaxy Star - Northeastern Oklahoma Internet
- Message-ID: <1422.6595T533T1962@galstar.com>
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- >Steve Schmidt (goaway@frii.com) wrote:
- >: I read somewhere that people were installing 68010's into A500's. The post
- >: said they are pin for pin compatable. The A500 was just turned on and it
- >: worked fine, only much faster.
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- >When I owned my A500 a few years ago I tried desperately to look for a
- >cheap way to accelerate it, because after seeing my friends A3000/030 I
- >wanted a faster machine. The 68010 IS pin compatible with the 68000, but
- >you'll have to change the stepping rate on your disk drive (not something
- >for the beginner) and secondly, you won't find THAT much of a speed
- >increase evident. I also believe the the calculator program under 1.2/1.3
- >(And possibly 2.0) will not work properly with the 68010. My advice is
- >don't waste your time with putting a '010 in, you'd be better off
- >shelling out a couple hundered bucks for a 020 card that sits on the CPU
- >slot instead.
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-
- Who told you to change the step rate on your floppies? They are full of
- crap! I have had a 68010 in my A2000 for over 3 years and never touched my
- drives. As for non- compatible software the only 2 programs that I could never
- get to work were Silkworm IV and SuperSpace Invaders. All the WB utils work
- fine. Maybe the original wb1.3 calculator didn't work, if not it probably
- wouldn't work with an 020 or 030 either.
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