Jeff Hellige skrev:
>>We thought about getting such a board until some weeks ago when we were
>>lended a Phase 5 Cyberstorm MK II 060 accelerator with 72-pin sockets.
>>Still, it's quite apparent that this A3000 is kept together mostly by rust
>>and hot glue. On good days, it works from a cold boot, otherwise it requires
>>a few resets before everything's settled.
> Did you have to do the INT2 mod on the A3000's mainboard for
>the MK II? How's heat dissipation with the '060 cpu? When I was
>running my A3000 with the A3640, the '040 cpu tended to run quite hot
>and there wasn't enough room for a proper heatsink.
We didn't have to modify the motherboard, just move some jumpers for clocks
and such, though we did have to saw a hole in the disk bay to accomodate the
fan, since the card had been overclocked. Took a whole day, and goes to prove
how cramped the A3000 is.
The '060 does a much better job at handling heat than the '040. In its
original 50 MHz state, it only had a small heatsink, whereas a small fan was
added when it was overclocked to 60 or 66 MHz.
What INT2 mod, BTW?
>> >BTW, is WB still limited to 256 colors?
>>God forbid! That could be a good reason to install P96/CGFX instead of EGS.
> If I remember correctly, under EGS on the Spectrum (on both
>my A3000 and A4000) programs that opened on the WB were limited to a
>maximum of 256 colors while if they opened on their own screen they
>could utilize the full maximum number of colors for that resolution.
>It actually didn't look as bad as it sounds. I ran Shapeshifter on
>it's own screen in at least 256 colors with a full Mac internet suite
>(Netscape, Eudora, MacTCP, etc.). It played a mean game of Maelstrom.
Perhaps am I just spoiled by Amiga performance, but all my Mac activites under
emulation have been unbearably slow. Mind you, nowadays I think that my (68k)
Macs are just as slow. It's quite amazing to think that my Centris actually
runs at a higher clock speed than my A4000.
My IIci just spent the last few hours running Ghostview, recoding a plain PS
file into a PDF. Hm, the PS was just 4072721 bytes, whereas the PDF turned out
at 7697180 bytes.
It's a classic PDF, BTW, since it's the manual for a DECstation. =)
I also did an Amiga-related find today: a Commodore 1010 external disk drive
at 15 crowns. Bulking big thing.
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Received on Fri Jul 06 2001 - 21:33:18 BST