6 Jul
2001
6 Jul
'01
2:33 p.m.
Jeff Hellige skrev:
>We thought about getting such a board until some
weeks ago when we were
>lended a Phase 5 Cyberstorm MK II 060 accelerator with 72-pin sockets.
>Still, it's quite apparent that this A3000 is kept together mostly by rust
>and hot glue. On good days, it works from a cold boot, otherwise it requires
>a few resets before everything's settled.
Did you have to do the INT2 mod on the A3000's
mainboard for
the MK II? How's heat dissipation with the '060 cpu? When I was
running my A3000 with the A3640, the '040 cpu tended to run quite hot
and there wasn't enough room for a proper heatsink.
We didn't have to modify the motherboard, just move some jumpers for clocks
and such, though we did have to saw a hole in the disk bay to accomodate the
fan, since the card had been overclocked. Took a whole day, and goes to prove
how cramped the A3000 is.
The '060 does a much better job at handling heat than the '040. In its
original 50 MHz state, it only had a small heatsink, whereas a small fan was
added when it was overclocked to 60 or 66 MHz.
What INT2 mod, BTW?
> >BTW, is WB still limited to 256 colors?
>God forbid! That could be a good reason to install P96/CGFX instead of EGS.
If I remember correctly, under EGS on the Spectrum
(on both
my A3000 and A4000) programs that opened on the WB were limited to a
maximum of 256 colors while if they opened on their own screen they
could utilize the full maximum number of colors for that resolution.
It actually didn't look as bad as it sounds. I ran Shapeshifter on
it's own screen in at least 256 colors with a full Mac internet suite
(Netscape, Eudora, MacTCP, etc.). It played a mean game of Maelstrom.
Perhaps am I just spoiled by Amiga performance, but all my Mac activites under
emulation have been unbearably slow. Mind you, nowadays I think that my (68k)
Macs are just as slow. It's quite amazing to think that my Centris actually
runs at a higher clock speed than my A4000.
My IIci just spent the last few hours running Ghostview, recoding a plain PS
file into a PDF. Hm, the PS was just 4072721 bytes, whereas the PDF turned out
at 7697180 bytes.
It's a classic PDF, BTW, since it's the manual for a DECstation. =)
I also did an Amiga-related find today: a Commodore 1010 external disk drive
at 15 crowns. Bulking big thing.
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