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Re: CD32 acellerator?

#1021
From: Paul Morabito
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 21:41
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>>Surely there must be a way to either use or make an accellerator
>>for the CD32's expansion slot

>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.

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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