Picture of Warp4 Accelerator?

[+Larry]

The "Warp4" type Atari accelerator has been around since the 1990's and was even sold commercially -- included in a special Atari-based system designed for Cable Broadcasters. It also included a built-in Black Box and IIRC, the Floppy Board, also. I saw a working version at the 1998 "World of Atari" show in Las Vegas. This version supposedly ran everything in the base 64K at 1.79 MHz and everything in 512K extended ram at 7.16 MHz.

 

Unfortunately, this was before we had a digital camera, and right now I can't even find my pictures from WOA; however, I know they are here somewhere. But I didn't get to see the "innards" of this accelerated machine -- does anyone have a picture of the actual Warp4 accelerator? I've seen schematics, but no pictures. Just curious.

 

-Larry

[drac030]

Here, on photos from Forever party 2008:

 

http://krap.pl/galery/forever-8/CRW_3907_1

 

http://krap.pl/galery/forever-8/CRW_3910_1

 

This particular one is clocked at 7 MHz. On the pictures, you can see that the CPU is 4 MHz. It has been discovered later that the overclocking makes the board unstable. After Laoo (the owner) has replaced the CPU, and put a 14 MHz one, the board started to work well.

[+Larry]

Thanks, drac030.

 

With the 14 MHz cpu, do you know if the extended memory worked as it was supposed to?

 

-Larry

 

Here, on photos from Forever party 2008:

 

http://krap.pl/galery/forever-8/CRW_3907_1

 

http://krap.pl/galery/forever-8/CRW_3910_1

 

This particular one is clocked at 7 MHz. On the pictures, you can see that the CPU is 4 MHz. It has been discovered later that the overclocking makes the board unstable. After Laoo (the owner) has replaced the CPU, and put a 14 MHz one, the board started to work well.

Edited April 18, 2010 by Larry

[drac030]

Yes, that was the whole point of the replacement.

[+Larry]

Great! I asked because I had heard that some issues were encountered by others trying to add the Warp4 -- they were not able to get the extended memory working correctly. Don't know any details -- just that it didn't work.

 

-Larry

 

Yes, that was the whole point of the replacement.

[drac030]

That's correct. Laoo's machine is the only one known to work correctly.