FuriaEC020 is an accelerator card for Amiga600 computers designed by Boris Krizma (Slovak Amiga HW developer) (boboo at szm dot sk), it's equipped with CPU Motorola MC68ec020/28 MHz and FPU Motorola MC68882/40 MHz, and with onboard 9.5 megs of fast memory. The quick access to the memory makes this little card a real monster, as it makes the Amiga more than 10 times faster, than the original Amiga600. The card has also ability to map rom into the fast ram, tested are roms 256 kB, 512 kB and also 1024 kB. The card also supports for Amiga600's IDE port speedup. The card is easily controlled by tool furiatune (written by Martin Kuchinka (martin at kuchinka dot cz) (see below for more information). To support inboard PCMCIA port, You need to remove 4 megs of the fast memory by 3 seconds press of Control+Amiga+Amiga.

Summary:

• CPU 68ec020/28 MHz
• FPU 68882/28 MHz
• 9.5 megs of high speed memory
• maprom function
• PCMCIA compatible

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FuriaTune:
is a simple tool, that handles all the functions of the FuriaEC020 accelerator card. You can download it directly here: furiatune (amiga executable), here is it's source code in assembler, and here is the archive containing both executable and the source code. There is no documentation in the archive, as it's very simple and straight forward.
To install, just copy the furiatune into C: directory in Your system.
To setup, just enter in your shell window:

1.> furiatune ?

and You will get list of it's options including a simple description. FuriaTune tool should work under all Amiga systems including AmigaOS 1.0 and is tested upto AmigaOS 3.1.
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Download:

file	released	changes
furiatune v1.1	23.12.2013	better argument handling, fpu switch works both ways, etc.
furiatune v1.2	4.3.2014	added 2 seconds delay before reboot to fix some slower ide devices synchronisation issues and so the hdd led works correctly even with ROM 1.3

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Speed tests and compare:
Here are few SysInfo 4.0 screenshots, first two are with furiatune shadowrom ide on

And here is the same with ACA630/25 with acatune -maprom *

As You can see, the ACA is really slightly faster, but it has 030, while furia has only 020 cpu. No need to compare FPU speed as ACA has no FPU available. Here You can download AIBB modules for the FuriaEC020 card and for ACA630/25 card and ACA630/25 with DataBurst enabled card.
More tests will come later.

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Frequently answered questions:

• Question: After installation of the FuriaEC020 accelerator and turning A600 on, Amiga won't do anything, display will stay black:
Answer: One of possible causes can be cold link between the accelerator and the A600 cpu. With time, contacts at cpu oxidizes, the cpu is needed to be cleaned up with contact spray.


• Question: After turning Amiga on, Amiga starts to boot from hdd/cf, display will unfortunately stay black, and Amiga will crash:
Answer: It is highly recomended to switch A600 capacitors with new ones, as they are long after it's lifetime, and it causes the instability (All A600s are atleast 20 years old.)


• Question: My Workbench doesn't work correctly, no programs can be launched, sometimes a software failure message appears:
Answer: There is older rom version in A600, than installed Workbench version on hdd/cf.


• Question: System works okay, but I can't run WHDLoad games, after launch a software failure message appears:
Answer: You are using old WHDLoad system, update to WHDLoad v 17.x is required.


• Question: Some WHDLoad games after launch freezes, including the display:
Answer: Before execution of the game is required to turn off the Furia's FPU. Enter in shell:

furiatune fpu off reboot

Some older games (like Katakis) has problems with FPU.

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Here follows few pictures of furia itself, and furia installed in A600:



and here I launched LightWave 5.2 on A600 :)

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This web page was updated 12.3.2014.