FPU & Oscillator 40Mhz 68882 question

[StephentQuinn]

Hi all,

First of all I'd like to thank the guys who made this site possible. So happy to have my request granted.
Although not new to the Commodore. I have an A500, an A1200 with gotek and flash card update and an A4000 (Acorn archimedes! Lol)

I have waited many months to find a memory upgrade so that i can use the flash memory to boot from. Recently I bought the memory plus
FPU & Oscillator 40Mhz 68882 and wondered what the fpu can be used for? I take it that this isn't an accelerator card as such?

Could anyone advise how I can get the best use from this chip and what benefits I could see, also if there is anything i need to do other than plug and play?

Many thanks

Steve

 

[anemo]

Hi there and welcome to the forum!

The FPU can be utilized by raytracers, demos and other applications that require floating point operations. I installed a FPU on my ACA1233n accelerator board just to be able to run more demos.

 

[StephentQuinn]

Thank you, that's great !