If you own a Elbox Mediator 3000Di/4000Di with 3.3V rail. You might not know, but you can actually upgrade it with a PowerPC PCI Card which will give your Classic Amiga a boost in speed!
This driver for the PowerPC G3/G4 PCI cards is made by Dennis Boon. He makes a Sonnet PowerPC card work in your Classic Amiga.
In this package, the included powerpc.library is a driver for the Sonnet 7200 G3/G4 PCI card,
the Force PowerPCM-250 G4 PMC card and even for the PrPMC8xx range of cards. So, you have lots of choice.
List of supported PowerPC cards
- Force PowerPMC-250 Card boasting a 450MHz G4 CPU and on-board SDRAM. PMC
carrier card required.
- Motorola PrPMC8xx cards with Harrier chipset with either G3 or G4 processor
and 256MB of on-board SDRAM. PMC carrier card required.
- Bigfoot Killer NIC M1 PCI card with 400MHz MPC8343E and 64MB on-board RAM
- Bigfoot Killer NIC K1 PCI card with 333MHz MPC8343E and 64MB on-board RAM
- Bigfoot/Xeno Killer NIC 2100 PCIe card with 400MHz MPC8314E and 128MB
on-board RAM. This only works partially for Xilinx based Prmetheus cards.
Full support will need a further FirmWare fix.
Fixes in this Release
- Not enough room on the PPC MMU pagetable when Voodoo4/5 installed. Fixed. - FindSemaphorePPC searched the wrong list. Fixed. - Double freeing memory for semaphores fixed. - Added that the exception/crash output also goes to serial. - Added basic support for Bigfoot/Xeno Killer 2100 PCIe cards. - Added Altivec support for CopyMemPPC when available. Needs 128bit alignment. - Added NoZeroGuard as an ENV option. See above. - Changed description for ENV option SetCPUComm. See above.
For further information. Please read the documentation. Here everything is explained.
