In this review of the new Amiga 2000 68030 accelerator, the "Dicke Olga", we will take a look at what makes it stand out from its competition. It supports 50mhz (and faster) 68030 CPUs, a separate clock for its FPU, an integrated IDE controller and 64/128mb of FAST RAM, that is local to the CPU.

This accelerator has been a labour of love by two members of the a1k.org forums, who wanted to make a dedicated accelerator card for the Amiga 2000, that offers class beating performance and flexibility. Watch on to see if they succeeded, or not...

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00:00 Intro
06:35 Dicke Olga History
12:16 Primary IDE Sockets
13:54 Secondary IDE Sockets
15:03 Compact Flash (Primary) IDE Port
15:45 68030 CPU & 68882 FPU
17:08 Requires Kickstart 3.1+
17:22 LIDE BootROM Upgrade
18:09 MapROM & Util
19:38 Fit The 3.2.1 Kickstart ROM
21:09 Fitting The Card
22:22 The IVS Grand Slam
23:50 Put The PSU Back In
26:38 Boot It Up!
37:03 SysInfo Benchmarks
42:27 Copying Over My Data
45:00 Disk/Mem Benchmarks
48:08 Conclusion

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