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68060 in Mac
Posted by: Phipli on 2023-04-29 00:52:08
My D50D mask full 040/25 runs toasty at 33 so it needs a heatsink otherwise causes my 475 to crash/stop running.
I was briefly thinking "33°C isn't too bad..."
Posted by: joshc on 2023-04-29 02:43:44
I was briefly thinking "33°C isn't too bad..."
Yeah, 33 MHz. No idea on the temps.
Posted by: Pushpull76 on 2023-04-29 02:48:00
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Hands-On with the PiStorm, the Ultimate Raspberry Pi-Powered Accelerator for Your Commodore Amiga

Costing as little as $13 and playing host to a Raspberry Pi, this could be the biggest bargain in Amiga accessories in three decades.
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As someone already posted, I will do some tests with this little boy in the next future. Not a 68060, just a 68040 on steroids...
Posted by: Phipli on 2023-04-29 02:58:02
www.hackster.io

Hands-On with the PiStorm, the Ultimate Raspberry Pi-Powered Accelerator for Your Commodore Amiga

Costing as little as $13 and playing host to a Raspberry Pi, this could be the biggest bargain in Amiga accessories in three decades.
www.hackster.io

As someone already posted, I will do some tests with this little boy in the next future. Not a 68060, just a 68040 on steroids...
If you haven't bought one already, and don't have an Amiga, I'd recommend holding off until there are videos of it working well with floppy drives, hard disks, serial, sound, and erm... macs. The only stuff I've seen relating to one of these and similar devices, so far, is a speed boost that could be achieved with a mild overclock, and came at the cost of only intermittent booting and multiple subsystems not working.

I really would love to see them working, but I'm not holding my breath until I hear someone like @GeekDot is helping - a load of ROM patches will be required at the least.
Posted by: Pushpull76 on 2023-04-29 03:10:55
If you haven't bought one all ready, and don't have an Amiga, I'd recommend holding off until there are videos of it working well with floppy drives, hard disks, serial, sound, and erm... macs. The only stuff I've seen relating to one of these and similar devices, so far is a speed boos that could be achieved with a mild overclock, and came at the cost of only intermittent booting and multiple subsystems not working.

I really would love to see them working, but I'm not holding my breath until I hear someone like @GeekDot is helping - a load of ROM patches will be required at the least.
Thanks for the advice, I've seen several videos on the web with bombing macs and nothing really stable but I see the future more bright 🙂
Posted by: soviet on 2023-04-29 11:07:10
A 060 accelerator for the Mac could be awesome, on my Amiga 1200 using my 68060@100 mhz accelerator, the fusion emulator beats the early PowerPC Macs with no problem using the speed test.
Posted by: Byrd on 2023-04-29 16:39:51
Yes, but nowadays that very 100Mhz 060 CPU is worth $1000, it'll be a FPGA solution or Raspberry Pi "MacStorm" that'll be the best option these days for a massively accelerated vintage Mac.
Posted by: Phipli on 2023-04-30 01:14:17
Yes, but nowadays that very 100Mhz 060 CPU is worth $1000, it'll be a FPGA solution or Raspberry Pi "MacStorm" that'll be the best option these days for a massively accelerated vintage Mac.
Don't forget we can buy working Dual 1.25GHz G4s that boot the classic Mac OS. It's a easy way of running the majority of old Mac Software extremely cheaply.

The stuff that's left, let's be honest, not even my IIcx running System 6 runs Kings Quest in colour properly. Sometimes poor compatibility is the softwares fault 🤣
Posted by: joshc on 2023-04-30 02:29:03
A Sonnet upgraded Sawtooth is all you need to run the majority of classic Mac OS software with good performance and solid reliability, 'nuff said.
Posted by: CC_333 on 2023-04-30 09:46:46
I agree. Before the Power Macs, trying to shoehorn a 68060 into a Mac might've made sense, but the PPC became so much better that if one wants to have a faster Mac, it's probably more practical to just use a Power Mac.

Another good point in favor of using a Power Mac is that they still exist in relatively large numbers, whereas I think there was only ever one 68060 accelerator made, and it was a highly experimental prototype that got abandoned as soon as the Power Macs became available.

That said, practicality isn't a hard and fast rule in this hobby, so if someone has the means and desire to create a working '060 accelerator for a 68k Mac, go for it!

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