Yulquen74
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Selling an old item for a friend.
Apollo 4060 accelerator board for A4000.
The card has a rev.1 68060 clocked at 50MHz, and is sold without RAM.
It has been unused for many years, and was found to be dead when taken out of storage.
I spent some time on it this past week to get it operational again.
Parts replaced includes most logic chips and busdrivers, and also the CPU socket.
The new CPU socket is of type PGA19x19, meaning 2 outer rows of pins and excess inner pins was removed prior to fitting it to this board.
Initially the card had only 2 low profile sockets (for A3000 installation), but I replaced those for 4 regular type sockets
to enable the use of 128MB RAM instead 64MB (2 chunks of 32MB).
I have tested the card with an assortment of 32MB SIMM's, and have found that although all of them are standard fastpage or EDO RAM,
not all of them work with this card, and mixing different otherwise working pairs was also found to cause problems.
Bottom line is it seems this board is somewhat picky about RAM, which is the same as I experienced with the one I sold last year.
Initially, I tested the "SCSI" interface with a real SCSI HD, which was recently used for testing the WarpEngine I sold here, working fine,
but the Apollo refused to boot with it connected.
I then stuck a CF card to an Acard based SCSI2IDE adapter, and this seems to work, although I'm not sure why
the read/writefile speeds are so low compared to raw read.
This interface is known to be a somewhat poor implementation anyway due to lack of DMA, and compatibility issues.
More information/resources about the Apollo 4060 here:
https://amiga.resource.cx/exp/apollo4060
http://www.canit.se/~glenn/apollo.html
I have tested the Apollo 4060 (fully populated with 128MB RAM) now for some time on my A4000 test mainboard (4MB fast RAM installed),
using the above mentioned CF card with OS3.2 installed, and it seems to work well.
Please note that Apollo products are known to have/cause issues in some setups.
Only declare interest if you acknowledge the fact that this item is very old and might stop working any day, and I assume a potential
buyer knows what he is doing.
If there is something a potential buyer would like me to test, I can do that unless it is too complicated.
This accelerator is sold without RAM, original box, disks or standoffs of any kind.
Asking 390470 549 599 690 Euros + shipping cost. Payment is by Paypal friend or family, or add Paypal fee on top of grand total.
Edit: Price reduction to 599 Euros.
Edit: Price reduction to 549 Euros.
Edit: Price reduction to 470 Euros.
Edit: Price reduction to 390 Euros.
Apollo 4060 accelerator board for A4000.
The card has a rev.1 68060 clocked at 50MHz, and is sold without RAM.
It has been unused for many years, and was found to be dead when taken out of storage.
I spent some time on it this past week to get it operational again.
Parts replaced includes most logic chips and busdrivers, and also the CPU socket.
The new CPU socket is of type PGA19x19, meaning 2 outer rows of pins and excess inner pins was removed prior to fitting it to this board.
Initially the card had only 2 low profile sockets (for A3000 installation), but I replaced those for 4 regular type sockets
to enable the use of 128MB RAM instead 64MB (2 chunks of 32MB).
I have tested the card with an assortment of 32MB SIMM's, and have found that although all of them are standard fastpage or EDO RAM,
not all of them work with this card, and mixing different otherwise working pairs was also found to cause problems.
Bottom line is it seems this board is somewhat picky about RAM, which is the same as I experienced with the one I sold last year.
Initially, I tested the "SCSI" interface with a real SCSI HD, which was recently used for testing the WarpEngine I sold here, working fine,
but the Apollo refused to boot with it connected.
I then stuck a CF card to an Acard based SCSI2IDE adapter, and this seems to work, although I'm not sure why
the read/writefile speeds are so low compared to raw read.
This interface is known to be a somewhat poor implementation anyway due to lack of DMA, and compatibility issues.
More information/resources about the Apollo 4060 here:
https://amiga.resource.cx/exp/apollo4060
http://www.canit.se/~glenn/apollo.html
I have tested the Apollo 4060 (fully populated with 128MB RAM) now for some time on my A4000 test mainboard (4MB fast RAM installed),
using the above mentioned CF card with OS3.2 installed, and it seems to work well.
Please note that Apollo products are known to have/cause issues in some setups.
Only declare interest if you acknowledge the fact that this item is very old and might stop working any day, and I assume a potential
buyer knows what he is doing.
If there is something a potential buyer would like me to test, I can do that unless it is too complicated.
This accelerator is sold without RAM, original box, disks or standoffs of any kind.
Asking 390
Edit: Price reduction to 599 Euros.
Edit: Price reduction to 549 Euros.
Edit: Price reduction to 470 Euros.
Edit: Price reduction to 390 Euros.
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