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Article #1021Re: CD32 acellerator?
From: Paul Morabito
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 1996 21:41
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! ==================================================================== | // Amiga 1200 * Paul Morabito | | // * EMail: paulmbto@world.net | | \\ // 68030MMU 28mhz * IRC Nik : MAVERICK | | \X/ * "You may say I'm a dreamer, | | * but I'm not the only one.." | | 120MB HD 6MB RAM * MEMBER OF Team AMIGA and IAS | | "AMIGA, the future is here!" Amiga since '90 | ====================================================================
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!nntp2.world.net!usenet From: paulmbto@world.net (Paul Morabito) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.cd32 Subject: Re: CD32 acellerator? Date: 23 Mar 1996 21:41:03 GMT Organization: AUSNet Services Pty Ltd Message-ID: <1381.6657T520T1521@world.net> References: <4ig0j2$5ss@ccnet2.ccnet.com> <4ihvjq$bb9@newsbf02.news.aol.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: sydney53.world.net X-Newsreader: THOR 2.22 (Amiga;TCP/IP)