Hi guys,
Seems like a new accelerator is on its way for the lucky owners of Amiga 3000 and Amiga 4000 computers:
http://oldschoolgameblog.wordpress.c...miga-30004000/
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Hi guys,
Seems like a new accelerator is on its way for the lucky owners of Amiga 3000 and Amiga 4000 computers:
http://oldschoolgameblog.wordpress.c...miga-30004000/
:thumbs:
That looks good !!
Someone mentioned this on Amibay yesterday. Is brilliant news that such a project is in development as PPC accelerators for very hard to find these days, and very expensive when they do appear. Plus their age is making them less and less reliable.
I'm hoping the price won't be really high though.
Rather cynical about it imo & why oh why an 040?
Its hotter, uses more energy, is less compatible than 060 & slower than 060. They are throwing USB, Ethernet & 2D VGA at the card and whilst it's nice to see some new hardware for out of date computers such as the Amiga, with the price difference in 68xxx chips these days & the modern extras designed in, I can not understand the choice of 040??
This decision amounts to similar & fatal mistakes C= made in their entire History as a Company whilst it designed it's own demise.
Maybe they have a good source of 040s and not 060s?
With regards to the 68040 vs 68060, it wouldn't surprise me if price is a big factor.
At Farnell, a 68040 is about £200 whilst the 68060 is twice that at about £400.
And there lies the quandry. £400 for approx 75 Mips @ 50Mhz. You can buy an i7 2600K CPU for about £240 retail & that gives you 128,300 MIPS before you even overclock it....Quote:
Originally Posted by Stephen Coates
Sod Farnells & go to China. :ninja:
I hope they at least manufacture the board in a manner that will allow easy upgrade to 060. Get a Regulator on there that just needs a Resistor moving, such as the CSMKIII & CSPPC cards are.
Cheap fabrication in China would be a brilliant solution. Make a new run of 060's and PPCs and flood the retro scene with cheap accelerators. :thumbsup:
Just don't expect the same quality, or that they will still be working in 20 years!
Once again, in the end, price will be the most important.
Does anyone would like to extimate the price? More then 350 euros? Much more?
I'm betting over £300 for sure. Probably closer to £500 wouldn't surprise me, but would mean it would price it out of most retro hobbyist's pockets and only those already hoarding existing PPC boards would end up grabbing them all.
yes i agree.
I getting tired of reading news all over the years about new acceleration hardware for Amiga because in the end, or they never saw the daylight, or they have forbiden prices...
I would love to get my hands in a Natami of a board like those, but, 400/500 it's to much, i would get a new laptop with that, or a brand new 32" LCD...
or so many other stuff... i don't know about you, but here it's a lot of many... minimum salary is 458 euros.... can you believe that????
An average salary is 894 euros... And you have to remove taxes on top of that!!
In these days, if i say here in Portugal that i am going to buy a 500 euros card for the Commodore Amiga, i might get killed .... lol
The developers already stated why they choose the 3.3V 040 instead the 060: market availability and ROHS compliance.
There is no ROHS 060 units, necessary for new hardware. That and the smaller footprint of SMD 040 makes the 040 the only choice for them.
Wasn't there a newly developed 060 compatible CPU recently though, that would surely have been an option?
Where?
I wasn't aware of smd 040's tbh, so it's news for me. However, I still think the card is a waste of time in this day and age. Unless they re-write how OS4 Classic works, it'll just be faster crap.
At least A-Eon/Hyperion show interest for the board and is willing to support it.
This ROHS-thing will destroy the hardware. :mad:
The ROHS thing is just modern day bullshit tbh. All part of the European Directive as well as HSE & COSHH & other corporate bs to boot. Meh! :coffee: