BFG 9060 68060 Accelerator for the Amiga review - With a virtual FPU? 

I hope that CPU of yours gets working again. I bet it will. My RC 68060 was broken like that, but Paul fixed it. I will never take her out of the socket, though as I know she would just break again!

Some freaking youtuber bent the pins. Then it showed up at my house

@@ChrisEdwardsRestoration har hat har!

It is such a wonderful machine. Even my 16 MHz version was so fantastic up until it stopped working in 1996 or so.

I really like the SoftIEEE - it is such a big help for me! It might get a touch faster and more stable with time.

I may have to look into that!

The INT2 mod is not needed as the BFG9060 doesn't have a SCSI controller onboard that even could generate an INT2

Rats! Now I have to go spend more money on a ZULUSCSI??? I almost bought one from Alex of Inertial Computing during AmiWest this year... I suppose I should get one! The SCSI2SD V6 is finally stable, but faster is better!

Always happy to share knowledge!

It is a Christmas gift from my wife. She gave it to me early!

Thanks! The Soft IEEE is a big help for sure to get some of my software working without reinstalling everything. It is maybe as fast as a 68881 running at 7 Mhz or so, but it does the job. I got the fans on Amazon. RU-vid freaks out with links so do a search for this: Wathai 30mm x 10mm 5V Small DC Brushless Cooling Blower Fan

Oh it is a nice board for sure! Is it the Xylink chips that are hard to get?

​@@10MARC That was my main concern - although I admit I haven't checked recently. On most of my projects over the last year, I've been surprised at how difficult even some ordinary components are to find too - though that seems to be easing of late. I'll check a bit later today I think - here's hoping!

@@retrotechtive You can contact me (kavanoz) and I can send you the missing parts. You can get my info from Chris Edwards’ BFG video

@@kavanoz64 Wow, thank you very much! :)

Oh for sure. I just don't bother because my Amiga 1200 is six feet away! I just use that or my Amiga 600 instead

Yes, I am quite impressed with it so far!

I have the 8.0 update - a friend of mine flashed one for me! Those boards are just plain weird. Work fantastic with some things, totally fail with others

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Oh really? No, I do not. But when I use the card again I will have to try it.

@@10MARC : I'll send you an email with the programs and the script you can run to optimize the Fastlane Z3.

They are so funny that way. Some people have zero issues with accelerator cards in their A3000 and some people have weird SCSI problems. I hope your A3000 is still working!

I know some people have had problems. Strange thing is, my 3000 is a relatively early one and the original SCSI Quantum LPS 105 drive worked fine right up to the end of that machine's use. In fact it still worked last year when I backed it up to a CF card with my Warp 4040 in an A4000! That backup works fine in WinUAE on a peecee.

@@jameshenry8015 you know u can convert the warpengine to 060/96mhz right?

@@a4000t I recall reading something about that a while back, but I have a Cyberstorm 060 and a PPC/060 so I really don't need to hack the WarpEngine 040. The PPC/060 is in my A4000T so the 3000 will get either the Warp or CS 060, haven't decided yet.

@@jameshenry8015 nice!

for example lightwave floating point crashes

Interesting. Which version of Lightwave are you using? I can see if it does the same for me. The EAB thread in my description is where Thomas looks at the issues with his software being incompatible. So far I haver had good luck with it. It is not fast, but is about equal to maybe a 14 Mhz 68882 or so.

Oh I see! I wonder what Firmware my card has. I received it in the middle of November so it must be pretty recent. No SCSI at 75 MHz?

@@10MARC no 75mhz, if i have the newer firmware on mine, it is possible you have it too

No, the onboard SCSI does not work reliably with the BFG9060. I get corruption and checksum errors after about four days. Oddly, my 16 MHz A3000 board seemed to work with my 68040 card fine, but my new ReAmiga 25 MHz board does not. I might swap the Ramsey and DMAC chips between my two boards and see if I can stabilize the ReAmiga, since that's the board I use

@@10MARC Bummer :-( You also have an A3660 "remake" (quasi a v3.3) card (by John Hertell) am I right? Does that work accelerator work reliably with the A3000's onboard skuzzi ? I'm about to pull the trigger on a freshly built A3660/3640 with a 33 or 40Mhz 040 running at a cool 25Mhz (I refuse to go the 060 route).

@@DikkeBetha No. I only have two A3640 cards. I never got the A3660 because they would have such slow access to onboard RAM.

Emulation of course is faster than real hardware, but many of us truly love to collect and use the original hardware. The biggest collectors and users of Amiga's already use WinUAE for many reasons. I have it on several machines, but use it for testing and sometimes for data transfer to the real thing. A good analogy would be collecting classic cars. You could get a driving emulator and collect pics of that 57 Chevy, or you could own one. I truly enjoy doing things on and pushing the limits of my real hardware. It just feels better than firing up an emulator to me, personally.

@@10MARC I get what your saying, but I'm not sure that is a good comparison to a picture of a car though. Sure there is nostalgia to seeing and using the real hardware vs a software emulator, but at the end of the day, why did we buy our Amiga's in the first place? For most of us.....to run the software. Maybe to play some games and various other things. The emulator provides the ability to do the same thing and run Amiga software, only the physical box doing it is different, but the results are almost identical. Well, if you have it running on an RGB CRT as I do. I also have adapters to use original game controllers if I want, but I generally prefer using arcade machine joysticks. Back in the day, the Amiga for me was also running my games, my multi-media video production software/tools and especially for software synths with MIDI keyboards. Video has switched from our NTSC and PAL standards to digital HDTV, so I'd rather use modern software tools for making videos as you probably do, but I had a Video Toaster setup back in the day. Obsolete now for most of us. Not many making NTSC or PAL videos today. And while the Amiga MIDI soft synths were revolutionary, today's VST synths on my PC are far superior. And the online stuff I did with my Amiga terminal emulators and modems have been replaced by the Internet and I prefer what PC's today can do for that. So it's mostly games that are left for me. What other kinds of software are you running on your Amiga's today, and why do you use Amiga's for it vs a modern PC or Mac? While I'm not overly nostalgia about having the actual physical hardware, I'm not at all satisfied with Amiga software running on a modern LCD screen. It looks totally different, and except for business software, it looks a lot worse for display graphics than a nice Amiga 1080 RGB CRT. Fortunately I'm able to use an RGB CRT with the WinUAE emulator and get an authentic picture. If I could have used the WinUAE emulator to run Amiga software in the 80s I would have. The reasons for owning real Amiga hardware disappeared for me. But I do understand the nostalgia of it for some people. If I had unlimited room and money, I would have kept all my vintage machines just for the memories. But in truth, with great software emulators, I really don't miss it.The Amiga lives on for me, just in a different physical form the same way as movies and music has changed physical forms for most of us from vinyl LP records and VHS video tapes to CD's, Blu-Ray's and online streaming. At the end of the day, the movies and albums are still pretty much the same. The players and physical media have changed.

In which requester?

Every amiga requester :-) when you're trying to open a file. Doubleclick the file you want to open instead of choosing the file & clicking open :)

@@rogerandrelassen3355 oh I got you! It's just habit really.

I may take this one up to 75 MHz. I do worry about the heat, though. She is so nice and cool at 50 MHz.

@@10MARC She'll be fine with a fan. I have 060@62Mhz on TF1260 without cooling. No problems.

@@3viis My 68RC060 in my A4000 is overclocked to 66 Mhz and she is like an oven. I think it is a Gen 1 chip, though. I think those ran hot. My LC Chip is newer and probably will work fine at 75 Mhz.