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- {subhead}Tech Question{def}{p}
- Article by Shawn McOwen
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- Editor's Note: AIO recently got an email with a technical type question,
- pleading for assistance. Well, after looking under every rock and tree
- we finally turned up someone who could answer the proposed question. In
- an effort to be at least somewhat helpful to the Amiga Community in
- general, I am hereby posting the reply to said email in the hope that it
- might be useful to a few other Amigans out there. The result is this
- article by Shawn.
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- So, without further ado, I present Shawn's reply to the email question
- by Schwag7.
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- Schwag7,
- > I have a techy type question: I have a Winner 68030 accelerator running at{p}
- > 40Mhz on my A1200. Firstly, I have noticed that it is physically identical{p}
- > to the Apollo product depicted in a number of retail sites, (this is either{p}
- > because the sites use inaccurate imagery or , more likely the uint has been{p}
- > re-bagged under the Winner brand.)-{p}
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- Yes you're right . Apollo was bought out of Brian Fowler- they are now offering
- the 68030 for a low US price of $100 last count.
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- > Secondly, the 68030 CPU on the card is rated at 25Mhz (rubbed off) and has{p}
- > been overclocked to 40Mhz at the factory, this worried me initially but I{p}
- > fitted a heatsinc to help with heat and Ive had no problems so far.{p}
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- But be ready and do the impossible because even on a PC people are weary of
- overclocking . They reather spend $100 more.heck spend that extra money later
- on the BOXER which I fully endorse and somebody else is going to soon.- Be
- ready for the impossible . Get an Blizzaard 030/or /040 if posible for no more
- then $100 for backup and make sure its not overclocked. Ebay.com is a good
- place.
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- > Lastly, my actual question is: is there a way to switch off the card,{p}
- > (short of unplugging the bast') either with a key combo at startup or by{p}
- > fitting a switch on the motherboard or card, I have found that no degrader{p}
- > software allows full compatability with software on an unaccelerated A1200.{p}
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- HOLD done both mouse buttons and you can go and step by step disable and even
- call the A1200 a A500 for games like SPeedBAll which I have down before. Demos
- that first came out on AMIGAformat wouldn't work on the acclarator cards
- unless one you degraded by way of holding the 2 mouse butons down. or 2.
- taking out the card and getting an old PMCIA 8meg card for your AMIGA which
- should be given away if not at $5 US including shipping. The blizzard is a
- great card and well I got the majority of games that wouldn't work on APpolLo
- to work on Phase 5 Blizzard 030 040 and 060 cards.
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- Shawn McOwen I-AMIGAONE
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