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From: spencer@eris (Randy Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: 68000 speed up kits
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Date: 5 Feb 88 03:19:38 GMT
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I have been getting real green with envy over pixar!les's '020 board
recently.  It is the Ronin (aka Finally) board running at 16 (?) MHz.
He uses it for rendering with Aegis Videoscape, but I am interested
in it for other reasons.  Like I saw him run DiskDoctor on his hard
disk at more than twice the speed my machine goes at.  So then it
occurs to me.  I really love the Amiga, all the speed that I get
having a blitter to move screen elements around, but I still have
trouble with the day to day stuff (like copying and such).  What
I could really use is a faster machine (almost more than a portable
machine, but that is pretty high on my list, so you better keep you
eyes on yours Dale!).  I don't really need to spend $250++ on the
'020 chip when I could get a 16 MHz 68000 for $20.  And the board would
be easier to build.  Just transfer all the lines up from the 68000
socket, except the timing lines.  Only problem is that I am no
hardware type.  I will build the thing if someone will tell me that 
it will work, but I don't get the physics of it.

So, anyone out there think about this?  I can handle the soldering
if someone will design the thing...  Anybody want to make it into
a product???
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