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- > Doug here,
- >
- > > Talking about accelerators, do you know anything about that lowcost one
- > > they talked about with Apex 3? I don't know who makes it, but you know the
- > > one from, BSS?
- >
- > Here's the spec so far for the BSS accelerator:-
- >
- > OSC: 32MHz 36MHz 40MHz 48MHz 50MHz
- >
- > Bus 16 / 18 / 20 / 24 / 25
- > CPU 16~32 / 18~36 / 20~40 / 24~48 / 25
- > FPU 32 / 36 / 40 / 48 / 50
- > DSP 32 / 36 / 40 / 48 / 50
- > Videl ?? / ?? / ?? / ?? / ??
- >
- > The user chooses an oscilator which suits them / their machine best
- > and plugs it into the board. The rest is software controlled. It is
- > also software switchable back to a 16Mhz Falcon. We may support several
- > oscillators on the board at once, but the min spec is for a single
- > interchangable one. The aim is LOW PRICE!
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- Cool. :-))
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- > The main goal is to achieve the following min spec:
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- > Bus: 24
- > CPU: 24
- > FPU: 48
- > DSP: 48
- > Videl: 48
- >
- > In order to achieve 640x480 VGA truecolour cheaply.
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- Nice. Why not run the CPU at 50MHz as well? If the FX-rad can run it
- in 40MHz.... and I think there is a accelerator form Poland that runns in 50MHz.
- I wonder how long the falcon will work in that speed though...
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- Usually you shouldn't push the componenets to more than 75% of it's maximum
- rating. Sometimes even lower, it depends.
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- Do you know how many falcon can handle 48MHZ CPU and 24MHz bus? Do anyone know?
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- > The price is set at under 30 UK pounds for current owners of
- > BSS software, and also for purchasers of the future Apex 3.
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- This is realy cool. 30 pounds! Heheheee.... no plans for fast-RAM support?
- I wonder if it will work together with the Magnum Fast-RAM card?
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- > I think the price will be 10 or 20 pounds more for non BSS
- > customers. I'm not sure of the exact details yet.
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- Still very cheap. :-)))
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- > > Have you tested Bad Mood on it?
- >
- > We are only just building the prototype today!
- >
- > :)
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- So you havn't got any up and running yet? Would be intersting to know
- how fast Bad Mood will be with 25MHz bus or 24MHz bus and 48MHZ CPU/DSP.
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- It would also be interesing to see how much faster the FX-card will be with
- fast-RAM.
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- //Magnus Kollberg
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