Accelerators

The beginnings of a list of accelerators boards available for the TOS range.

Atari ST Range

• AdSpeed ST - ICD - 16Mhz accelerator. Software switchable between 8/16Mhz

• JATO 16Mhz Board - John Russell Innovations - 16Mhz accelerator board.

• CMI 16Mhz Board - Creative Microsystems Inc. - 16Mhz accelerator board. Also adds sockets for Blitter chip and 68881 FPU. It also has a method to speed up TOS access called fastROM.

• Turbo16 - Fast Technologies - 16Mhz accelerator board.

• SST - Gadgets by Small & Fast Technologies - 16Mhz 68030 accelerator board.

• Turbo 20/25 by System Solutions - Accelerator for ST and Mega ST

• T28 and T36 by System Solutions - 28Mhz and 36Mhz accelerator for STF, STFM, STE and Mega ST

• Plus Cache ST by Atari Workshop - 16Mhz accelerator for STFM

• PAK 68/3 by System Solutions - 32/40/50Mhz accelerator for STFM, STE (with adapter), Mega ST & Mega STE

Atari Falcon

• Afterburner - Top of the range for its time (mid-nineties) 68040 booster.
• Blow Up 3 - Boosted '030 to 40mhz, added fastram and screen resolution enhancer, another one from Atari Workshops.
• Centurbo 1 - Rodolphe Czuba's version of this.
• Centurbo 2
• CT60 / CT63 - Power Phenix 68060 accelerator for the Atari Falcon.
• DX-3 board - from OXO Concept
• Eclipse (Cortex Design) : interface PCI extension.
• HighSpeed40 - This was in 1996 and you could switch between 20 and 40MHz cpu.
• Mighty Sonic 32 (with this one you have to put the 030 from the f030 on the accel board), fastram
• Mighty Mic 32 (no fastram)
• Nemesis - System overclocker to 150% of normal Falcon speed, handled by Titan Designs/Black Scorpion in UK
• Phantom - Cheaper Czech-built Nemesis style overclocker.
• Power Up - Simple 16 to 32mhz cpu clocker, very early, distributed by Atari Workshops in the UK.
• Power Up 2 by System Soltuions - 32Mhz accelerator for Atari Falcon
• Skunk 32
• Speed Resolution board 40mhz by Hard&Soft
• Tempest - PowerPC based, extensively written about, prototyped, but not made?! This started as contemporary with CT2!
• Veloce Falcon - To take Falcon to 40mhz, fastram capability, modelled on Veloce STe, never produced?
• Wizztronics Barracuda 040 - 33 mhz 6840 and two vme-bus-slots. Optional FastRam-card, 128 megs. (never sold?)

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