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- From: olli@enea.se (Ola Liljedahl)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Phase-5 Vaporware; Maybe Warp Engine Better?
- Date: 31 Mar 1996 15:14:51 +0200
- Organization: Enea OSE Systems; "OSE - Design on a higher level"
- Message-ID: <4jm0gb$ssg@gordon.enea.se>
- References: <4jl3pb$lr4@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> <2787.6664T611T1083@guest.arnes.si>
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- Keywords: A3000/A4000 accelerator, MC68060, Apollo, CyberStorm, Warp Engine
-
- claevius@firefly.prairienet.org (Brent Busby) wrote:
-
- > I'm beginning to wonder if the wait for CyberStorm is even worth it.
- >
- > MacroSystems has been producing a very reliable and efficient accelerator,
- > the Warp Engine, for some time now, and it offers most of the same advantages
- > that the CyberStorm does. The main difference between the two is that the
- >
- <snipped>
- >
- > Should I buy a Warp Engine now? Should I wait for a CyberStorm '060 board
- > that, when released, may have to go through many board revisions before it's
- > a trustable, stable accelerator, assuming Phase-5 even bothers to *try* to
- > fully debug the board at all? The CyberVision graphics card, for all its
- >
- <snipped>
- >
- > What do you think? Should I wait for the CyberStorm and see what comes of
- > it? Does anyone know if anything will be coming of the Warp Engine's '060
- > upgradability option? (The Warp Engine '060 question is the main reason I
- > wrote this post, so if anyone has any information on that, please reply.)
-
- I am writing this on an Amiga 3000 equipped with the Apollo 3060 with a
- 50MHz 68060 CPU. The Apollo 3060/4060 is MC68060 version of Apollo's
- accelerator board. It has Fast-SCSI-II, but I don't use that yet, I don't
- have any F-SCSI-II drive to connect. The 3060 takes two SIMM's (up to 64M),
- the 4060 takes four (up to 128M). The difference is because the A3000 case
- is too small for four vertically standing SIMM sockets. The Apollo can use
- your motherboard memory (at least on the A3000) but really flies with its
- own memory (>55M/s transfer speed according to bustest).
-
- The Apollo line of accelerators is available in Europe, maybe someone
- should try to distribute them in North America.
-
- Maybe the Apollo 4060 can be your choice of accelerator for your A4000?
-
- Regards,
-
- Ola Liljedahl
- olli@enea.se
- "OSE - Design on a higher level"
-