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A600 IDE Speeduppage  1 2 

Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
13 Feb 2017 19:30


Speedup of original A600 IDE Hardware.

To improve the performance of our V600 users we
work on getting the maximum possible out of your original AMIGA.

NO extra hardware is needed for this!
 
Apollo 68080 will give your original chipset a significant speedup.

 

This IDE speedup and our new MDMA feature will allow you to play videos much smoother from your HD/CF


Simo Koivukoski
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 601
13 Feb 2017 20:04





Teemu Korvenpää

Posts 26
13 Feb 2017 20:07


Iam pretty sure some games like Monkey Island III will work now without audio clitching up :)


Mo Retro

Posts 241
13 Feb 2017 21:09


This is great news for all of us with an A600V2 :)
  Top Job !


Wawa T

Posts 695
13 Feb 2017 21:59


if thats for real, then well, its rather cool. never thought that possible.



Michal Warzecha

Posts 209
14 Feb 2017 10:05


wawa t wrote:

if thats for real, then well, its rather cool. never thought that possible.
 

True. I think no one from community think it's possible. 30 years of creating addictional hardware for Amiga and no one before did it.
What can I say? It's unbeliveble work and, somehow, I think it's not over yet :)
Another big surprise BigGun :)


Neil 8bitplus

Posts 12
14 Feb 2017 12:22


Amazing. I wouldn't have imagined it that fast on the SCSI.device. That's faster than my FastATA mk1 on the A1200.
Will this be a addition candidate for Gold3? 


John Mautz

Posts 35
14 Feb 2017 16:31


Very happy to see this!!!


Simo Koivukoski
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 601
14 Feb 2017 19:27





Carlos Milán

Posts 95
15 Feb 2017 09:05


You really rule! The 600 is my favorite Amiga model and I never dreamed it to be become this powerful.


Roman S.

Posts 149
15 Feb 2017 18:08


Cool! Did you have to modify the scsi.device to achieve this? Will the A1200 internal IDE get similar speedup with Vampire 1200?


Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
15 Feb 2017 23:00


Roman S. wrote:

  Cool! Did you have to modify the scsi.device to achieve this? Will the A1200 internal IDE get similar speedup with Vampire 1200?
 

 
No this is with normal SCSI device.
 
This improvement is purely done with optimised protocol of Apollo.
 
But you are correct - the AMIGA OS SCSI device has some room for improvement. So I would not be surprised to see a little more speed when tweaking SCSI device a little.

We have done this so far only on A600.
And its very likely that the same benefit will be reached on A1200.

On the other hand on the V1200 we have our own IDE controller which can by design > 13 MB/sec
With tuned SCSI device we should actually reach even much more.



Neil 8bitplus

Posts 12
16 Feb 2017 08:36


Hi Gunnar. I remember something called SpeedyIDE that gave the A1200/600 almost another 1mbps boost. I used to include it in my Blizzard rom remap when I used the original IDE port without IDE-Fix or FastATA.
Might be worth seeing what SeedyIDE actually did....


Gunnar von Boehn
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 6207
17 Feb 2017 11:41


Fastest A600 IDE ever?
 
 


Mo Retro

Posts 241
17 Feb 2017 15:49


Gunnar von Boehn wrote:

Fastest A600 IDE ever?
 
 

I'm intrigued Gunnar :D
It's not visible, can you repost the link please?



Niclas A
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 219
17 Feb 2017 18:54


Mo Retro wrote:

  I'm intrigued Gunnar :D
  It's not visible, can you repost the link please?

EXTERNAL LINK 
EXTERNAL LINK 


Mo Retro

Posts 241
17 Feb 2017 20:11


Niclas A wrote:

Mo Retro wrote:

  I'm intrigued Gunnar :D
  It's not visible, can you repost the link please?
 

 
  EXTERNAL LINK 
  EXTERNAL LINK 

Thanks  Niclas,
Wow :D that's an enormous improvement. More than 7MB/s!
Hat off for the Team :)



Niclas A
(Apollo Team Member)
Posts 219
18 Feb 2017 23:42


EXTERNAL LINK


Wawa T

Posts 695
19 Feb 2017 02:33


you dont tell me thats the internal ide ;)
on the other hand why not..


Thierry Atheist

Posts 644
19 Feb 2017 05:49


wawa t wrote:
you dont tell me thats the internal ide ;)
  on the other hand why not..

Not afraid, are you?
EXTERNAL LINK  ;=)


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