igreenaw@hemel.bull.co.uk (ian greenaway) (05/23/91)
I've seen an ad in the May '91 AmigaWorld by Aamiga Warehouse for an accelerator for the Amiga. Its called DigiFlex and apparently has a 16Mhz 68000 and 12Mhz 68881. The price is about $125. Does anyone have it? Is it any good? What speed increase do you get? Any software that doesn't get on with it? All these questions and more (possibly) must be answered before I part with any of my pounds sterling - I'm in the UK see !!! Thanx in advance for any and all replies. Ian alias igreenaw@hemel.bull.co.uk E-Mail or follow-up -- I'll get it either way !!
billsey@agora.UUCP (Bill Seymour) (05/25/91)
In article <1991May23.101018.29829@hemel.bull.co.uk>, ian greenaway writes: > I've seen an ad in the May '91 AmigaWorld by Aamiga Warehouse for an accelerator > for the Amiga. Its called DigiFlex and apparently has a 16Mhz 68000 and 12Mhz > 68881. The price is about $125. This is the old Creative Microsystem Processor Accelerator. DigiFeX took over the marketing of all those products when CMI went away. The board is a syncronous 14.32MHz (slightly less with a PAL Amiga) 68000 with a math chip setup as a peripheral device (the only way you can talk to one with a 68000). $125 seems to me to be a fairly good price, less than retail anyway, especially if you get the 68881 in the bargan. Don't expect to see blinding speedups from this board, but you should be able to see something like 10% overall and much better for any software that's using the mathieee(doub|sing)(trans|bas).libraries. > Does anyone have it? > Is it any good? > What speed increase do you get? > Any software that doesn't get on with it? I have one still in my 1000 (20MHz 68881) and never have any problems with it. In most cases, it should work the same for you. Note that mine is the older version that didn't have room for a ROM chip. > All these questions and more (possibly) must be answered before I part with > any of my pounds sterling - I'm in the UK see !!! > > Thanx in advance for any and all replies. There are certainly better accelerators out there now, but you'll be hard put to find one cheaper. And if you're writing your own code for the 68881, you can do some wonderful things with this... > Ian alias igreenaw@hemel.bull.co.uk > > E-Mail or follow-up -- I'll get it either way !! -Bill Seymour nesbbx!billsey@agora.uucp or nesbbx!billsey@agora.rain.com ***** American People/Link Amiga Zone Hardware Specialist NES*BILL ***** Bejed, Inc. NES, Inc. NAG BBS NES BBX BBS Home Sometimes (503)281-8153 (503)246-9311 (503)656-7393 (503)640-9337 (503) 640-0842