#386 – CD
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Has anyone heard anything about the Bridgeboard accelerator from Atop ?
Has anyone heard from Hypermedia Concepts lately, I can't get them to reply
to my calls.
Thanks in advance for any info.
Andrew
Andrew…
I've seen messages from several people who have installed the ATOP 386/20
accelerator from ATOP. Everyone seems to be very pleased. Marion Deland,
editor of the CROSSINGS newsletter has picked one up, and has promised a
full review in her next edition… might be worth ordering the Feb and
March editions (better yet… subscribe: 12 monthly issues for $40:
212-369-8131).
She gas already reported a Norton SI rating of 20.7, but says others have
achieved 27.
Michael
….from the north coast
Im wondering if this thing will someone cure the problem the 286 BB has
when trying to run Windows 3.0 in Standard mode. From what I hear it will
not run windows 3.0 in standard mode due to some bug inthe 286 BB's
dule-ported ram or gate arrey or something like that..could this 386
somehow fix this problem, or not?
Tim
Tim:
Nope… the problem with running windows in std mode is inherent in the
286BB from CBM… since the ATOP unit simply modifies the CBM BB, it
continues to exhibit the same flaw (ie: it's not a flaw in the ATOP unit).
Michael
….from the north coast
Tim,
I have had the ATOP installed for over five months now and have had no
problems with it thus far. I have had the Multimedia Windows 3.0 running
on my system since October when it was first released. It runs just fine in
both Standard and 386 Enhanced modes. Wing Commander and Links both play
reasonably well too.
I posted my first impressions of the ATOP board in the Bridgeboard section
several months ago in which I posted several benchmarks showing the ATOP to
perform the same as any 20mhz clone. I also have a CD-ROM drive which I
switch between the IBM & Amiga sides so I can run both Amiga/CDTV titles
and IBM/MPC titles (and Mac CD-ROMs as well, under A-Max).
-sun
Thanks for the info Michael, glad to know that this isn't another example
of vapourware ! Andrew.
Michael,
I posted several benchmarks for the ATOP board several months ago when I
gave my initial review of the board. The benchmarks are meaningless by
themselves. The Norton SI rating you get depends in the version of Norton
Utilities you use. An older Norton version 4.5 gives the rating of 20.7.
The latest Norton Utilities version 6.0 gives a rating of 14.2.
-sun
Thanks Sunny.
Michael
….from the north coast