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Originally Posted by demolition
People who buy cheap accelerators usually want them for WHDLoad stuff. There is no need for an FPU for that and thus it just adds cost. If you really want to run high end stuff that requires an FPU, you'd probably want something faster than an 020/030. This is why I think low end accelerators with FPU are not particularly useful, at least for the general Amiga user.
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I chucked a 68882 in my LCIII 030 Mac cause it was cheap and it made a noticeable difference.
Now I realise classic Mac's do almost everything in software and the Amiga uses custom chips, but I'd still have thought for anything using floating point math there would be a significant speed up?