Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!bonnie.concordia.ca!thunder.mcrcim.mcgill.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!mcsun!corton!mirsa!legend.cma.fr!jmt From: jmt@legend.cma.fr (Jean-Marc Tanzi) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware Subject: Re: Accellerator Hack Message-ID: <11816@mirsa.inria.fr> Date: 17 Jun 91 12:58:57 GMT References: <1991Jun6.104357.12137@news.iastate.edu> Sender: news@mirsa.inria.fr Reply-To: jmt@legend.cma.fr (Jean-Marc Tanzi) Organization: CMA Ecole des Mines, France Lines: 20 Nntp-Posting-Host: legend.cma.fr In article <1991Jun6.104357.12137@news.iastate.edu> taab5@isuvax.iastate.edu (Marc Barrett) writes: > > The next time I get around to it, I will try the hack with the multisync >monitor and report my results. BTW, this hack, when used with the 40Mhz >clock oscillator, can produce a 40% speedup clear across the board on >everything from the blitter to the sound chip to the CPU. This is because, >unlike all other acclerator boards or speedup hacks, this speeds up the >custom chips as well as the CPU. > It's hard to believe it will work. The video is not the only part that has to get the proper timing to work. If the floppy interface gets its timing from the master clock (if not, I wonder how), you won't be able to exchange data with any other machine. That's also a real problem. -- ============================================================================= Jean-Marc Tanzi | Millions of years to make oil and forests, jmt@cma.cma.fr | a century to burn them. Mankind versus Nature: 100000 to 1. | Will Mankind find a tougher planetary opponent?