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- From: bull@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: 68030 Accelerators for the Amiga 500
- Message-ID: <1992Sep9.101631.90042@vaxc.cc.monash.edu.au>
- Date: 9 Sep 92 10:16:31 +1000
- References: <epa.715928734@cygnus.cis.ksu.edu.cis.ksu.edu>
- Organization: Computer Centre, Monash University, Australia
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- In article <epa.715928734@cygnus.cis.ksu.edu.cis.ksu.edu>, epa@cis.ksu.edu (Eric P. Armstrong) writes:
- > I am looking at buying a 68030 accelerator for my Amiga 500 since I
- > cannot afford to upgrade to a A3000 :-( I have a Xetec FastTrak HD
- > controller w/4 Meg of memory on the daughterbord. I am looking for
- > specs on the various accelerators.
- >
- > I want a 68030 w/MMU (None of this EC crap!), I'm not too worried
- > about the FPU since I don't do anything that really uses floating
- > point. I would prefer that the board has simm slots so I can put my 4
- > 1Meg simms on it as 32 bit memory.
-
- The two main 030 accelerators for the A500, the Mega Midget
- Racer and the VXL-30 use ordinary DIP RAM chips. A standard A500 case
- doesn't have enough height to fit a board with SIMMs (both the MMR
- and VXL-30 barely fit in (height wise) as it is). Both have 68030
- and 68EC030 options, with or without an FPU.
-
- GVP have a new unit called the A530. It's a SCSI hard disk,
- a 40 Mhz 68030, optional FPU, up to 8 Mbytes of 32 bit SIMM RAM, and
- also has a slot for GVP's PC286 IBM PC compatible processor card. The
- biggest feature is that it's all in the one case, the same size as the
- GVP A500-HD8+ hard disk unit. You don't have to open your A500, it
- all plugs into the expansion connector on the left side of the A500,
- as a single unit.
-
-
- > I am looking for un-biased(hahahaha!) information on any boards that
- > exist, compatibility problems encountered. My motherboard is Rev 5.
- > and has the 1Meg agnus installed.
-
- I have the VXL-30 (25 Mhz EC030, no 32 bit RAM) and a Rev 5
- motherboard (with the Enhanced Chip Set). The VXL runs fine. The
- only compatibility problems I've had are with software which doesn't
- like the 030. Without 32 bit RAM, the speedup for general use is
- not very large.
-
- There's also an 030 board made in England, the Solid State
- Leisure B5000 (25 Mhz 68030, FPU, RAM and CPU on the same board,
- up to 7 Mbytes of 32 bit RAM). Magazine reviews have said that the
- manufacturing and documentation quality are not very good, but
- it works and is cheaper than it's competition. I don't know if
- B5000's are available outside of Europe.
-
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