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Wil this Coprocessor fit a Colour Classic?
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If it measures up with the coprocessor slot on the motherboard or expansion board it will.
Thing is this: it is rated to run at 33MHz, but the color classic runs at, what(?), 16MHz? So the coprocessor will run at the same speed of the processor, it is is determined by the clock circuit on the motherboard. Nothing wrong with that. Just do not expect it to run at 33MHz because it says so on the chip because it wont because of the main processor and motherboard clock speed.
Thing is this: it is rated to run at 33MHz, but the color classic runs at, what(?), 16MHz? So the coprocessor will run at the same speed of the processor, it is is determined by the clock circuit on the motherboard. Nothing wrong with that. Just do not expect it to run at 33MHz because it says so on the chip because it wont because of the main processor and motherboard clock speed.
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I got one from china as well for my first classic.
I used monkey island (the scumm bar scene) to see if there was a difference in speed - sadly there was no increase in performance that I could see( for that game anyway)
not happy with the result I went off and got my hands on another color classic - mystic style - played all the way through monkey island from memory - non stop
took ages of searching to find what right way to put the chip in - as I remember It will go in 2 different ways , and I assumed it will only work one way
mmmmmmm.................... just got me thinking......... maybey I put it in the wrong way after all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
darn..............
anyone got a picture of the co-processor installed the wright way. I used the writing on the chip , and pictures of other co-processors installed, to orient the chip before I pressed it into its socket
I wonder if I put it in the wrong way round, would it still boot up???????????
I used monkey island (the scumm bar scene) to see if there was a difference in speed - sadly there was no increase in performance that I could see( for that game anyway)
not happy with the result I went off and got my hands on another color classic - mystic style - played all the way through monkey island from memory - non stop
took ages of searching to find what right way to put the chip in - as I remember It will go in 2 different ways , and I assumed it will only work one way
mmmmmmm.................... just got me thinking......... maybey I put it in the wrong way after all !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
darn..............
anyone got a picture of the co-processor installed the wright way. I used the writing on the chip , and pictures of other co-processors installed, to orient the chip before I pressed it into its socket
I wonder if I put it in the wrong way round, would it still boot up???????????
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Yups. Its color...
The machine im on about is up in the attic.
Id swear the chip I got had a notch out of 2 opposite corners.
it was last year, but I do remember spending about an hour searching for images because I just couldn't figure out which way to put it in
dam - I know im Irish,but now I feel like a right ass - hahaha. Like ive been doing this for many years............
have to redeme myself and get the dam thing down to have a look.
onwards!!
BTW - I got that wrong as well, ment to say 'color is spelt with a u over here'
old age ... what can I say!!!!!!!
Id swear the chip I got had a notch out of 2 opposite corners.
it was last year, but I do remember spending about an hour searching for images because I just couldn't figure out which way to put it in
dam - I know im Irish,but now I feel like a right ass - hahaha. Like ive been doing this for many years............
have to redeme myself and get the dam thing down to have a look.
onwards!!
BTW - I got that wrong as well, ment to say 'color is spelt with a u over here'
old age ... what can I say!!!!!!!
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The Math Coprocessor does not accelerate the overall function of the 030 in any Mac. It does speed up math functions for the 030 so it would not waste time doing calculations. Most of the time you would not see it and some diagnostic (I said SOME!) wont care for it.
But in programs like Quark, Photoshop, Freehand, Illustrator, Sound Machine, other multimedia manipulation software and even some games like (I forget its name) 3D tank simulation and Spectre VR are math heavy and the coprocessor would help out a lot in these things. Without a math coprocessor, running Spectre VR would be slow unless you just run it on minimal colors and no shape shading. With the math coprocessor you can run Spectre VR with all the options on. Other than that, your terminal program or file transfer utility would care more about fuzzy balls than about your math coprocessor.
In short, a math coprocessor will not speed up your I/O.
But in programs like Quark, Photoshop, Freehand, Illustrator, Sound Machine, other multimedia manipulation software and even some games like (I forget its name) 3D tank simulation and Spectre VR are math heavy and the coprocessor would help out a lot in these things. Without a math coprocessor, running Spectre VR would be slow unless you just run it on minimal colors and no shape shading. With the math coprocessor you can run Spectre VR with all the options on. Other than that, your terminal program or file transfer utility would care more about fuzzy balls than about your math coprocessor.
In short, a math coprocessor will not speed up your I/O.
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Dumb Question: what takes advantage/requires a coprocessor?
See my post ( #14 ) above. But I'll semi repeat myself here.
A Math Coprocessor will not speed up I/O, Screen output or overall speed of the CPU. It will speed up applications that are math intensive like Quark, Photoshop, Freehand, Illustrator, Sound Machine, other multimedia manipulation software and even some games like Spectre VR. These programs are math heavy and the coprocessor would help out a lot in their operations. Without a math coprocessor, running the game Spectre VR would be slow unless you just run it on minimal colors and no shape shading. With the math coprocessor you can run Spectre VR with all the options on.
Otherwise, the Math Coprocessor will just sit there and do nothing while the CPU does the work. When the CPU runs into a routine involving advanced or complex math, it sends the routine to the Math Coprocessor to do the math for it. The CPU can still do basic math routines like adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing, while advanced math routines involving geometric and trigonometric functions are sent to the Math Coprocessor.
