Commodore Amiga TF1260 060 CPU Accelerator + 128MB + EIDE (For the A1200) - TerribleFire 

How you where Able to update Firmware, as there is no offizial way to do it

£250? Still far less than I gave for my Blizzard 1260. Is the board for sale? I didn't if it was on the exxoshost site. If so, I might build one. I have a number of '060s looking for a purpose...

any idea where or when we will be able to get our hands on these in the USA?

@@digitalpanther Order ist polite From Chucky or alenppc , don’t know about shipping Go US

@@digitalpanther .- You can order from AlenPPC. You can find him in the Commodore-Amiga Facebook Group. He ships to all Americas (not just US) and Australia too. He’s got immediate availability of the accelerator cards as of now. Chucky Hertell builds and distributes these cards for European audiences, and SuperDupa for UK. Hope it helps.

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I just have the public one sorry =/

@@GadgetUK164 No problem. The public one is somewhat unclear to me. There seems to be a mixup in the caps in row 2 I think. And the memory is becoming harder to get these days. Like many components :-(

Honestly, I had NO IDEA you had released your video! It was a shock when someone mentioned in the premiere chat towards the end of the video! I really enjoyed your video - totally different look at things from what i did, and anyone reading this should check out the link in the pinned comment and watch it and sub =D And again sincere congrats on your marriage - fantastic news, bad news for the rest of us male tech geeks of course ;)

@@GadgetUK164 Lol yeah it's a bit crazy isnt it... But one thing thats confusing me here though? why are some of these comments down below from 3 weeks ago? when it clearly says you posted it only a couple of hours ago? lol i'm confused

@@MsMadLemon This video was out on Patreon earlier i think.

@@TerribleFire Aah of course, that makes sense.

@@TerribleFire Thanks for creating this board Stephen! Love it!!!!

Thanks! Yes, the TF4060 is still in the works - I will do a video on the proto soon!

Off the top of my head I cannot remember where pin 1 is - I am sure I showed it in the video. What I would suggest is posting on the Exxos forum - there's a dedicated TerribleFire section!

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@@GadgetUK164 Well, I really wasn't joking.

You could try that, it may work just the same as it does on the A4000, but it might not - depends how Gayle works with the IDE there on the 1200. Personally I just boot from the onboard IDE and add the EIDE on the TF1260 as an additional drive.

I went with a 12v DC 40mm x 40mm fan.

Yes, it was a limited run!

That’s a beautiful TF1260. Like the moving red lights on it. My was very expensive because of the Rev 6 CPU on it.

Since you can grab a 50mhz 030 chip for $40 that is really great for compatibility while a full blown 060 is literally $600 today and LC models without the Math coprocessor have issues. Besides there are no real Amiga games that need more than an 030 anyway. Quake can be run fine via a 15 year old PC laptop, and I don't run my Amiga for Quake, but original Amiga titles.

@@ridiculous_gaming The issue with Amiga, is the price of accelerators. If you can find an accelerator that delivers only CPU and Ram, then you need to source used ones from back then. And they are up around some 476 to 634 US dollars here in Europe. Plus shipping. And they usually only come with no Ram or just 8mb. I just dont need what the modern ones offer. Like extra ports and maprom. I only want 030 and 64 to 128mb Ram and nothing more. Basically, there are nothing on the market, and if something comes on the market, then it will be sold out within 1 day and will never get sold again. What we need, is a cheap basic CPU and Ram accelerator. A bit like the TF1260, just without any IDE port or clockport or maprom. And that is simply not avaliable. It is fine that we can buy cheap CPU's, but without any card to stick it in, then it does not matter at all.

@@drphilxr It is not compatible and never will be acording to stephen him self. And you will have to buy a buffee in order to get a TF-1200. The A1200 buffee card, are ordered by the buffee team or something.

The EIDE has shot up with the latest update! 5MB/s But I've only ever had around 1.6MB/s on the onboard IDE. It could be because those drives are using the standard filesystem and default block size.

FastATA arrived. I'm getting only 6,853,437 bytes/s on A4000 with CS Mk2 and 060 rev6 at 100 MHz. Bummer.

@@discoHR That's not bad tbh!!! Getting around 5.3MB/s now on the EIDE interface of the card. I suspect it would be faster with better CF card / SD adapter.

Maxed it out at 7.3 MB/s with PIO5. Ordered some SATA adapters directly from Elbox, will see how it handles SATA SSDs but I doubt they will be faster. 5.3 MB/s is great for A1200!

Thanks, yes - Andy T mentioned that same point to me! I am sure it does run very well at higher clock speeds. Also when there's local RAM it shifts too.

You can message supaduper, alenppc or Chucky about purchasing one on the Exxos forum:- www.exxoshost.co.uk/forum/index.php You can probably also find those guys on Amibay or EAB.

@@GadgetUK164 Thank you so much! :D but alenppc is an italian boy perhaps?

There was a great seller on eBay that seems to have stopped selling it =/ For the last stuff I just ordered I got some other adhesive tape from China (eBay) - no idea if its any good yet.

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Haha - yes! Makes me want to watch Knight Rider again!

As mentioned in the video, its a closed source project at the moment. Stephen may open source this later in the year, once a number of these have sold. At that point you would be able to order a PCB and the components to build your own.

Nah, power is fine! Beefy PSU, voltage doesnt drop and actually I've been monitoring it whilst in use and seldom the 5v rail drops below 5.08v.

Came from China like that!

It doesn't, it will run on an 020 probably!

It also runs on a standard Atari STe with 68000 @ 8 MHz.

@Neb6 A500's Dread (cut-down Doom clone) used the Bilter hardware to speed up the C2P process.

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Well its cheaper than an 030 and goes 3 times the speed.. So maybe a sprinting mute dog?

060 with FPU is like fast very 486SX. 486SX is equivalent to 68LC040. Apple Quadra 605 was sold with 68LC040 and an entry price of $1000 in October 1993, it was ready for MacOS's Doom official port.

@daniel son I disagree!!! I have a LC in my TF1260 and it flys - only thing i use that needs an FPU is quake and for that I have my Vampire machines!

It wasn't fully open source at that point! However, Stephen has now open sourced the TF1230 and TF1260...

That is all you really need. Nobody is doing actual work on Amigas today and even if they were, they'd be using 200mhz PPC chips like back in the 90s. The best way to play Doom is on a PC. It's not an Amiga game. 98% of the best Amiga games will play on a A500! This is just an expensive toy. Which is fine if you like playing around with expensive stuff.

Nah, an LC 060 is £40. That's not breaking the bank! But an 030 is like £7 or something, so yes there is a big difference!

@@GadgetUK164 It's not just the chip. There is usually an expensive board involved too. Didn't you say the chip you wanted was like 350 quid?

@@tarstarkusz The LC chips are 3 times the speed of an 030 and actually cheaper than the 030 chip itself. The TF1260 without CPU is approx the same price of an 030 board.

@@GadgetUK164 It's about $40 USD when I bought my 68LC060 Rev 4. I later bought 68060 Rev 1 for $200 USD.