Zeus68k – Accelerator/IDE/RAM for the A500/2000/CDTV and others

[Calabazam]

Interested in 1 as well please.

[dJOS]

depending on price, im interested in one too.

[gibs]

so am I

[lurch]

Puzzling stuff, as I have an A500+ which has 1MB onboard and a 1MB via the trap door.

Have Toms 8MB in the CPU socket.

So going by what has been said if I get an ACA500 I'd have to remove the 1MB in the trap door and the 8MB in the CPU socket as the ACA500 blocks the CPU socket :-/

ACA500 2MB (classed as chip?) + 1MB onboard + 80 Euros

ACA1220 - 128MB + 90 Euros

170 Euros..... Not too bad.

Is there anymore info about the Zeus board?

Another thing that is confusing to me is I have no issues playing 90% of the games via WHDLoad on my 500+ My CPU is a 68010 for the quit key to work properly but no other tweaks.

Only games that are really slow are space quest/kings quest although they're far more playable now that I have the 8MB to play around with.

[duga]

Nope. You'll leave the trap door expansion which gives you a total of 2 MB chip.

Then you'll remove the Toms 8 MB and replace it with the ACA500. That gives you 2 MB fast.

Then you can sell Toms 8 MB and buy a ACA1220 as a replacement.

[ikonsgr]

Originally Posted by lurch

Another thing that is confusing to me is I have no issues playing 90% of the games via WHDLoad on my 500+ My CPU is a 68010 for the quit key to work properly but no other tweaks.
Only games that are really slow are space quest/kings quest although they're far more playable now that I have the 8MB to play around with.

So the old 68000/7Mhz (68010 is barely faster than 68000...) can handle whdload games without any speed penalty? I was under the impression that except for extra fast ram you will also need a more powerfull cpu than 68000/7Mhz! I have an amiga 500 (with 1mb chip mod) and i was thinking, if adding only fast ram (like the one kipper2k make) and perhaps something like the ide68k with ide to cf card adaptor could make my amiga 500 be able to run whdload games without any speed problems! (Of course,i will need to change kickstart with a 2.04 version too, right?)
What exactly is your configuration, that allows you to run whdload games?

[TotO]

Sure, with WHDLoad you need few power to handle games that already kick off the good old 68K@7MHz.

[lurch]

Originally Posted by ikonsgr

What exactly is your configuration, that allows you to run whdload games?

Current config is an A500 plus with 2MB chip, Toms 8MB fast RAM which connects to the CPU socket, a 68010, an A590 with a Mechware SCSI card reader so I can use a 2GB cfcard.

Can play 90% of games fine, Space quest I gave up on too slow, kings quest enhanced works not too badly needs a slight bump in speed :-)

The 8MB from Tom helped alot.

Upgraded to Workbench 3.1 along with the kick but that gave me less chip RAM available.

Actually the fastest combination was Workbench 2.x with kickstart 3.1 :-) Gave me 1.9MB chip to play with.

[lurch]

Will be replacing the SCSI card reader with the ide68k I have sitting here so should improve the HDD seek times :-)

[Lord Aga]

Originally Posted by TotO

A multiple frequency choice on the boot menu will be just great to increase compatibility.

This would be awesome !
7 MHz 100% compatible
14 MHz cruise speed
28 MHz serious muscle
50 MHz turbo charge (when rendering with Real 3D )

So we can pick some medium values where the extra speed is showing, but it still goes easy on the CPU.

[mr.vince]

Whatever you like. get ready for some pics later tonight.

[Lord Aga]

Ohboyohboyohboyohboy

[mr.vince]

Alright, this is no vaporware... Here's a real PCB. We plan to have the final boards immersion gold coated, but it's too expensive for one demo board. Please look at the first picture, especially on the lower left and tell me what you see...

[gibs]

Top!

So it is for september ?

Originally Posted by lurch

Actually the fastest combination was Workbench 2.x with kickstart 3.1 :-) Gave me 1.9MB chip to play with.

Tiny Launcher can give you more

[kipper2k]

Originally Posted by mr.vince

Alright, this is no vaporware... Here's a real PCB. We plan to have the final boards immersion gold coated, but it's too expensive for one demo board. Please look at the first picture, especially on the lower left and tell me what you see...

Attachment 32314

Attachment 32315

a Real Time clock

[gibs]

This board is going to be a success !

[TjLaZer]

Nice can't wait to see it finished!

[mr.vince]

Originally Posted by kipper2k

a Real Time clock

Yes, indeed. One more function built into the beast. No add-on, no adapter.

[dJOS]

Nice, what modes does the IDE Support - UDMA33 or UDMA66?

[JuvUK]

hi,

i would like to state interest in one of these