Re: accelerators

[lone@hogbbs.scol.pa.us (John Hale)]

mnementh@netcom.com (David R. Villegas) writes:

> I'll leave this post short:
> What's the fastest accelerator available for an enhanced //e?

Transwarp III WAS the fastest....9 mHz, I believe, at one point. 
Unforutanately, that product turned out to be illegal, because AE ripped 
off the company that had pioneered //e acceleration, Rocketchip. That 
left Rocketchip and Zip tech. AE still sells their putting 3.6 mHz+256K 
"Transwarp" card for the //e, although a much better buy is (and the REAL 
answer to your question..)

The 8 mHz variant of the Zip chip. I have one, and it runs great. Its 
actually several chips sort of glued together: a small memory cache and a 
jack-up-ed clock crystal. Zip tech supplies all kinds of neato software 
to control how the chip communicates with slow slots, etc. I've had it in 
a hot, overburdned old //e for two years and it hasn't given me any 
trouble. Except playing games <grin!>
                                                        -Lone Wolf