They have been working on this for years, and years, and they are a small team focused on Amiga products. But I would guess there are a lot more 68K macs in circulation nevertheless.ġ) What's the level of interest in something like this? Would you plunk down $500 for an accelerator/RAM upgrade?Ģ) any chance one of our gods wants to take a look? Maybe somebody who has made a disk emulator or a scuzzy SD adapter or SCSI-ethernet adapter?Īny finally, I want to ask: please don't bombard them with posts or email asking for "mac versions".
#CPU SPEED ACCELERATOR SERIAL FOR MAC MAC#
If the Amiga community can produce those numbers, would the Mac 68K community produce more? Maybe less? Amiga is kind of a special community, because of the whole demise-of-commodore thing. I just looked now, and they have a little thing on the order page that says 5655 Vampires have been sold so far.
Maybe connectix virtual (for memory) and the Gemini (?) control panel (for accelerator recognition) are enough? Like I said, I'm not qualified to help in any way.
#CPU SPEED ACCELERATOR SERIAL FOR MAC DRIVERS#
Engineer(s) to write drivers for system 6 and 7 (and 8 and 9 if that floats your boat)? Not sure about this part.Would buy vampire units and resell with the hardware circuitry. Engineer(s) to make the circuitry required between the vampire CPU and the mac 68000 socket.I don't have direct contact with them, but scan of forum there makes me think they'd need at least $200-300 per unit (not to consumers, to the company/person making the adapters). Would that be interesting? To be clear: it doesn't exist, and I'm not the one to pull it off. Running 6.0.8 (and newer if you insist). $500-ish. Imagine, for a moment, a drop-in CPU replacement for your 68K mac that brings it to 500-800Mhz, AND adds 128MB of RAM. Options for accelerating compact 68K macs are few are far between.
Novy Quik30s and Total Systems Geminis appear to be unobtanium. You can also get a FPGA based "68080" drop in replacement CPU (I don't have one of these). You can get new 68030s boards running at 45/50Mhz (there are actually TWO different providers I'm aware of) with gobs of memory, options for drop in and card slots, etc. I have been upgrading a couple of old Amigas with accelerators.
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