Ok then what about the GoldCard ? The 68000 is socketed I believe. F.
On 2013-03-09, at 18:32, Tony Firshman wrote: > 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 > > > -- > [email protected] 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 > _______________________________________________ QL-Users Mailing List http://www.q-v-d.demon.co.uk/smsqe.htm
