The 500 should have no problem.

The Amiga would probably do if it has a math CO.

From Angelfire.com:

The first computer introduced was the Amiga 1000. The second batch of computers was the Amiga 2000 and then the Amiga 500, both with a 7MHz 68000 processor.
Later the marvel Amiga 3000 was introduced which had an new chipset and faster SCSI. The Amiga 3000 ran at 16MHz or 25MHz using the new MC68030. The Amiga 3000 was a competent machine in contrast to Macintosh and Intel PC Clones. Also around this time the Amiga 2500 was introduced which had a 14MHz 68020 and then later a 25MHz 68030. The Amiga 3000 did not remain popular because the famous Toaster board would not fit within the casing enclosure of the desktop Amiga 3000 until the arrival of the Amiga 3000T. A few years later the Amiga 4000 (50/25MHz1 68040) and the Amiga 1200 (68EC020) featuring AGA chipset was introduced, but by this time the Amiga platform was being displaced possibly due to lack competence of Comodore executives.

Generally Linux/m68k runs on any MC68020 with an external MC68551 PMMU (Paged Memory Management Unit) processor. Other processors after the MC68020 have a built-in MMU (Memory Management Unit) with exception of the MC68EC030 and other EC processors which cannot work with Linux/m68k. It is good to have an FPU (Floating Point Unit) or math co-processor as it is slow to use an emulator and difficult to configure. Commonly, MC68881 math processor is used with the MC68020 and the MC68882 is used with the MC68030. The newer MC68040 contains a built-in math coprocessor. The MC68LC040 does not have the built-in math coprocessor.

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The 500 should have no problem.

The Amiga would probably do if it has a math CO.

From Angelfire.com:

The first computer introduced was the Amiga 1000. The second batch of computers was the Amiga 2000 and then the Amiga 500, both with a 7MHz 68000 processor.
Later the marvel Amiga 3000 was introduced which had an new chipset and faster SCSI. The Amiga 3000 ran at 16MHz or 25MHz using the new MC68030. The Amiga 3000 was a competent machine in contrast to Macintosh and Intel PC Clones. Also around this time the Amiga 2500 was introduced which had a 14MHz 68020 and then later a 25MHz 68030. The Amiga 3000 did not remain popular because the famous Toaster board would not fit within the casing enclosure of the desktop Amiga 3000 until the arrival of the Amiga 3000T. A few years later the Amiga 4000 (50/25MHz1 68040) and the Amiga 1200 (68EC020) featuring AGA chipset was introduced, but by this time the Amiga platform was being displaced possibly due to lack competence of Comodore executives.

Generally Linux/m68k runs on any MC68020 with an external MC68551 PMMU (Paged Memory Management Unit) processor. Other processors after the MC68020 have a built-in MMU (Memory Management Unit) with exception of the MC68EC030 and other EC processors which cannot work with Linux/m68k. It is good to have an FPU (Floating Point Unit) or math co-processor as it is slow to use an emulator and difficult to configure. Commonly, MC68881 math processor is used with the MC68020 and the MC68882 is used with the MC68030. The newer MC68040 contains a built-in math coprocessor. The MC68LC040 does not have the built-in math coprocessor.

@Ageless once again thankyou for answering my question,yeah i have an Apollo 1240,have the 060 chip to but due to it needing an upgrade kit to install it
and it being an obsolete platform now they are hard to come by (even on that well know Auction Site) could get a blizzard Accelerator card but then again they are expensive when they do come up for auction and very rare.

The price of a Blizzard PPC card well....would be cheaper to buy new motherboard and processor to upgrade an aged PC,Besides PPC would only run @ 233MHZ so you can see my logic.

Thanks guys for all your help. Subject now dropped due to going way off topic


i won`t bother with the Miggy i`ll just keep it for other uses

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i have an Apollo 1240,have the 060 chip to but due to it needing an upgrade kit to install it and it being an obsolete platform now they are hard to come by (even on that well know Auction Site) could get a blizzard Accelerator card but then again they are expensive when they do come up for auction and very rare.

I had a link to a site that sold (obsolete) Commodore parts, including all the upgrades for the C64 and Amiga. Too bad that site no longer exists, but through some other C64 sites, I eventually came up with some stores on the net who still sell Amiga hardware.

Check out http://www.commodorecomputercenter.com/ for instance.
Or check out the other links available from Lemon.

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i have an Apollo 1240,have the 060 chip to but due to it needing an upgrade kit to install it and it being an obsolete platform now they are hard to come by (even on that well know Auction Site) could get a blizzard Accelerator card but then again they are expensive when they do come up for auction and very rare.

I had a link to a site that sold (obsolete) Commodore parts, including all the upgrades for the C64 and Amiga. Too bad that site no longer exists, but through some other C64 sites, I eventually came up with some stores on the net who still sell Amiga hardware.

Check out http://www.commodorecomputercenter.com/ for instance.
Or check out the other links available from Lemon.

@Ageless

Thanks for the links,checked them but no accelerators for sale on there,i know how hard they are to come by because i`ve been after an Apollo 630 for my Amiga 600 for nearly a year now.

I did have a thought about running BOING on an Amiga through emulation,checked out the amiga forums and it seems that WinUAE will never be developed to utilize PPC so that`s killed that idea. As i said before i think i`ll setup my trusty old 500MHZ Desktop to help crunch somemore data. @ this rate i`d need about 30 systems to be crunching data day & night to even get into the top 100,000 LOL @ least dreams are free :-)

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Just trying to catch UP!