Re: Tweaking it to the Limmit

[irsman@iastate.edu (Ian Schmidt)]

In article <hh13113@pro-racing> pro-nbs!pro-racing!clueung (chantha lueung) writes:
>If I was going to try to speed up the IIgs with out an accelerator what
>would I have to remove/add, change, etc... on the mother board.  Anyone
>thought else thought about doing this besides me?  Has anyone done it?

It's not gonna happen.  You need a faster 65816, which runs at a higher clock
speed, while the rest of the GS continues to run at the old speed (timing is
pretty tight on the GS logic).  You then need some type of logic to determine
hits on certain softswitches and slow down your processor, as well as a cache
controller and SRAM so the faster '816 can fetch data at it's 'native' speed.
Thus, you'd end up duplicating all the functionality of an accelerator board
, and it probably wouldn't be as cheap.



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