On Saturday, March 9, 2013, Francois Lanciault wrote: > A stupid idea just came up to me. > > Knowing that it is difficult for various reasons to make a 680X0 board as > fast or faster than the GoldCard, would it be possible to... make an > accelerator board for the GoldCard itself ? (Or SGC for that matter). > > Some kind of daughter board that would fit in the 68000 socket. All the QL > address decoding and shadowing of memory would still be taken care by the > GC but maybe a daughter board could run at a faster speed, especially if it > has its own fast memory. Imagine a SGC fitted with a 68030 or a 68040 > daughter board :-) > > I have no knowledge of electronic board design so don't laugh to loud. > > Otherwise it is always nice to see someone working on original hardware > ad-ons
Not laughing but the processor, on SGC certainly is soldered in underneath another chip. I know that as Stuart H did a bodge job on some and I had to rescue them. They were Quanta boards I think. Tony -- t...@firshman.co.uk http://firshman.co.uk Voice: +44(0)1442-828254 Fax: +44(0)1442-828255 Skype: tonyfirshman TF Services, 29 Longfield Road, Tring, Herts, HP23 4DG _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
