Re: 14MHz 65816??

[mportune@telerama.lm.com (Matt Portune)]

Tony Cianfaglione (tony@ccn.cs.dal.ca) wrote:
>    I have been in contact with Western Digital regarding their 14 MHz 
> 65816 chip which they tell me fits onto the accelerator cards such as the 
> TransWarp GS or Zip GS.  They were not sure if it would replace the stock 
> GS chip that plugs into the motherboard, which is what I want to do.  I 
> find the various accelerator cards too buggy to rely on.
>    They keep crashing in the middle of vital projects and I'm forced to 
> disable the cards and run at the native speed.  Is anyone familiar with 
> the 14 MHz chips and can you get one to plug into the motherboard and 
> chuck the accelerator cards altogether?

Hi Tony,
	Unfortunately, the answer is no.  The new 816's put out by WDC 
(Western Design Center BTW) are not the long, rectangular chips that the 
GS uses.  The WDC chips must be installed on an accelerator.  On top of 
that, the accelerator itself must be modified.  There is a FAQ all about 
this maintained by Nathan Mates.  You can find a link to it on my site.
Hopefully helpful!

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