| Title: | Atari ST, TT, & Falcon |
| Notice: | Please read note 1.0 and its replies before posting! |
| Moderator: | FUNYET::ANDERSON |
| Created: | Mon Apr 04 1988 |
| Last Modified: | Tue May 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
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I thought I'd post this for the benefit of those of you who may not
watch the Internet news groups. I have seen no additional news on
it yet but did see earlier a post from a person at Lexicor saying
that they were in fact planning to sell this clone.
Dan
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Article 42527 of comp.sys.atari.st:
Noone else seems to have posted this info here (just bits of it),
so here goes.... (I wouldn't have a clue where it came from)
Craig.
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PANDORA/MEDUSA T40
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The first 68040 Based Atari Clone, now available at LEXICOR SOFTWARE
CORP.
PANDORA/MEDUSA T40
MC 68040 at 64 Mhz
Internal FPU and PMMU
Performance is around 26 MIPS, 4.5 MFLOPS
Main bus is:
32 Bit Data, 32 Bit Address
Bus Clocked at 32 Mhz
Full Bus snooping read and write
Atari bus is:
16 bit Data, 24 bit Address
Bus snooping, write
Own ACSI Address for full 32 Bit Address
Fast RAM
Can hold 8-128 Megabtes on board
Write 73 Mbyte/sec
Read 85 Mbyte/sec
EPROM is
2 MByte on board
32 Bit Wide
TOS 3.06 modified slightly
- ST I/O Board
-DMA
-MIDI
-SERIAL
-PRINTER
-KEYBOARD
-FLOPPY DD, HD, ED
-2 SERIAL PORTS (like TT Modem) (upto 115KBaud)
-IDE Bus (12 Mb/sec)
-ISA Bus (for own custom Graphics Board)
(This ISA Bus will work with any ET-4000 Based Graphics Board on PC
Platfor with the NVDI ET-4000, however NVDI ET-4000 only supports upto
max. 32,000 colors as of this date)
Additionally you can get:
-VME Bus
VME Bus 16bit
Laser Printer Port (?)
ROM-Port
Mega Bus
-SCSI Board
TT SCSI
SCSI II
TT Lan
-DSP Board
DSP96002
and an MC68060 Board is sceduled for the year 1994
LEXICOR SOFTWARE CORPORATION
(510) 848-7621 - (510) 848-7613
Here's a Price Breakdown in United States Dollars, users in North
America will have the main parts assembled in the U.S.A. as parts are a
lot cheaper here.
The MEDUSA T40 is ideal for the high-end Atari User. Based around TOS
3.06 is very compatible. Following this message will be a short list of
working programs.
- Basic Motherboard 68040/64
- Tower Housing
- ST Input/Output Board
Cost is: 2,490 U$D (Cost can vary depending on the exchange rate)
Availability: NOW, Transport time should take no longer than 2 Weeks!
Additionally you may purchase an ET-4000 Graphics Board 15/16bit Color
onboard for about another 100 U$D + NVDI ET-4000.
A VME Bus Multiple Bus Board (see description above) for another 400
U$D
8, 16, 32, 64 or 128 Megabytes on board, price depending on SIMMS,
current price is around 40 U$D per megabyte.
IDE Internal Drive will cost depending on drive size. Internal IDE, no
external casing required.
NOVA VME 16M Graphics Board when purchased with VME Bus (for 24bit
Color) costs 489 U$D.
All prices given are Recommended Retail, shipping not included!
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:: Craig Shore. Phone +64 3 385-6554 (Christchurch, New Zealand.)
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:: (CraigS on IRC) ::
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1401.1 | Great machine! | EDDF10::ECKEL | No sports. | Tue Feb 22 1994 08:04 | 19 |
Thanks for posting, I'm glad that Medusa is available in the States,
too.
I have the oppportunity to have a look at one of those machines from
time to time, and I'm very impressed by its performance and high
quality. There will be an additional graphics controller available,
wich uses an ET4000 and is *not* connected to the 8 MHz ST Bus, but to
the Medusa bus. This will greatly improve graphics performance, which
is one of the weaker points of the machine at the moment.
Another drawback is, MagiX! 2.0 will not run on the Medusa. The
developers are working on that, but there still is no official release
of MagiX! that supports Medusa.
At home I have a list of programs that work fine or with restrictions
on the machine, if there is a demand for this information I will put it
here. I believe I have some GEMbench performance numbers, too.
Regards, Peter.
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| 1401.2 | Please post the list! | STKHLM::ARENDI | Jaak A., Client Tp/IM TSC Sweden | Tue Feb 22 1994 11:55 | 3 |
Yes! Please post the compatibility list here!
Jack
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| 1401.3 | ..and the GEMBench figures | FAILTE::ROBSONB | Tue Feb 22 1994 13:15 | 6 | |
Please post the GEMBench figures too,
Best Regards,
Brian
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| 1401.4 | Compatibility list | EDDF10::ECKEL | No sports. | Wed Feb 23 1994 08:35 | 56 |
From ST Computer 2/94
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Software running without restrictions:
Calamus 1.09, S, SL
Avant Vector 1.1
Retouche, Retouche Pro CD
That's Write 2.01
Edison 1.0
WF-Edit 1.0
7Up 2.09c
Idealist 3.303
Scooter PCB 2.03
GfA Basic V3.6TT
Omikron.Basic V4.0
Desert Drain 1.52
Pure Pascal 1.1
Pure C 1.1
Turbo Ass 1.7.6
Devpak TT
ACS 1.05
NVDI 1.02, 2.01, 2.5
Fast Sektor Backup 4.8
GEMview 2.13, 2.45
TCache 5.9
SCSITools 4.02
LHArc V2.01, 2.20, 2.31
Teradesk 1.21
Software running with restrictions:
Degas Elite V1.0 use ST RAM
Devpak ST use ST RAM
Crackart 1.36TT use ST RAM, disable instr. cache
Tempus Word jr. 2.1 disable both caches
Script II disable both caches and use ST RAM,
otherwise printing will not be possible
Signum!3 disable both caches and use ST RAM,
otherwise printing is not possible (*)
Incompatible with Medusa:
Omikron.Basic V3.0
Luftschloss RAM-Disk
WF-Edit 1.19
Tempus Editor V2.11
MagiX! 2.0
(*) I have contradictory information from Oliver Buchmann, Application Systems
Heidelberg.
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| 1401.5 | Performance figures | EDDF10::ECKEL | No sports. | Wed Feb 23 1994 08:37 | 94 |