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From: hades@pbinfo.UUCP (Detlef Siewert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: PC-Speed vs. PC-Ditto II
Message-ID: <567@corona.pb>
Date: 7 Jul 89 09:33:11 GMT
Organization: Uni-GH Paderborn, Germany
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I have *seen* PC-Speed just two day's ago, presented by it's
inventor, Hans Sack from Bad Lippspringe (only a few kilometers
from here) and it convinced me.
 He had mounted it into a Mega ST 2 with a Vortex HD 30 harddisc
connected. Almost every program he showed worked fine, but
Flight Simulator III couldn't make use of the Mouse, because of
an (yet) unimplemented special command.
 The emulator contains a V30 cpu running at 8 MHz, two PAL's and
three TTL- chips. The board will have to be soldered directly 
on the MC68000 cpu.
 The speed was fantastic (compared to PC-Ditto I) and scrolling
the screen using XtreePro was nearly as fast as Tempus.

 We tried to connect two other harddiscs, but one of them
didn't worked. It was using an ICD host-adaptor, but every
attempt to read from the disc resulted with an error message
'Teilerueberlauf'.
 The other one was an adaptor-board from GE-Soft (a german company)
using an OMTI- controller and it worked fine.
 Users of an original ATARI- harddisc will have no problems.

 The price will be 498.- DM, that's about 250-300 US$.

		Hans D. Siewert