I've been looking for an internal accelerator for my Amiga 500 (rev 6a) and came across the Spitfire 500 project:
https://github.com/jbilander/SF500
"Spitfire 500, A low-end 14 MHz Accelerator with IDE and 4/8 MB fast RAM for the Amiga 500."
What I like about it is that it can work with Kickstart 1.3 or later kickstarts - and that acceleration (14MHz woohoo!) can be disabled. It has 8MB of RAM and IDE. It seems perfect in terms of functionality.
Has anyone else here built one of these?
As far as I can tell no one is selling assembled units - or even blank boards. I can almost convince myself that I could assemble one (solder it) but the CPLD programming bit intimidates me - I've not done it before. There are photos on the project wiki but I'm not clear on what setup I would need to program the chip. Any advice?
In the end I may just buy an ACA500plus since it offers so much - but I don't really love that it sits externally. Or maybe a Wicher 508i whenever they are back in stock.
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wildcopper
- Seattle, WA
The ACA500+ is awesome indeed. You should consider it.
One of the A1k wizards has designed a similar board. 4MB only, though.
See here (German):
https://www.a1k.org/forum/index.php?threads/42494/
Files are here:
https://www.a1k.org/forum/index.php?attachments/106448/
On AmiBay and on A1k there is a guy called „DJCook“ who every once in a while sells some boards based on Matze‘s design.
One of the A1k wizards has designed a similar board. 4MB only, though.
See here (German):
https://www.a1k.org/forum/index.php?threads/42494/
Files are here:
https://www.a1k.org/forum/index.php?attachments/106448/
On AmiBay and on A1k there is a guy called „DJCook“ who every once in a while sells some boards based on Matze‘s design.