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- > > I was about to ask, whether it would be totally impossible to adapt
- > > this Amiga 1200 accelerator to work in Falcon?
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- > What on Earth can we do with a 68060-50Mhz, on a 20 Mhz Bus (better
- > case... ) ? What we need is a machine based on a PC-motherboard : a PCI bus can
- > go up to 132 Mb / sec :), and a Fast-PCI one upto 264Mb... Then, a
- > daughter-board, with a 96002, and slots to add other DSP-units, on a PCI bus, a
- > great Sound-card (so that Falcon users aren't disappointed), a PCI(3D ?)
- > gfx-card, so that we do have cool graphic modes, and a cool OS, modified so
- > that it fits with the new hardware... Eprom, Videl, etc could be installed on a
- > ISA card, and we could use the PC peripherals (mice, etc...). This way, we'd
- > have the positive points of the PCs, and not the negative ones... :)
- >
- > :)
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- Sounds like what wizztronics have been talking about....
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- > Cool idea... Just waiting for Wizztronics to buy it... ;))))
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- It looks like a deal is very neer completion now. Mostly formalitis
- left if I have understod it all right.
- Wizztronics have stated that they are going to rework TOS and the falcon
- completly releasing the machine we always have been waiting for...
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- Only the future will tell, but Wizztronic have clearly said that they
- want to continue developing the falcon concept making it the ultimate
- machine and now when Apex 3 is on its way only god can stop us....
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- Hollywood, here we come. ;-)
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- //Magnus Kollberg
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