"Q: What is the difference between a Boeing 747 and an Amiga?
A: A Boeing 747 only crashes once."
PRESS RELEASE: NEW 68060/68040 BASED TT CLONES
NOW AVAILABLE FROM COMPUTER DIRECT
The DirecT40 and the DirecT60 are based on the same motherboard
design, simply swapping out the socketed 68040 and plugging in a
68060 results in an instant upgrade!
DirecT40 is a MC68040 33/66 MHz Atari TT clone. DirecT60 is a
MC68060 60MHz Atari TT clone. DirecT40/T60 are housed in a PC
style tower case which allows for up to 5 - 5.25" devices and 3 -
3.5" internal drives. This means that you will have plenty of
room for SyQuest Drives, Tape BackUps, CD Recorders and Players
and any other device that would require an open front drive bay
plus you would still have room for up to three hard drives!
The open architecture design of the motherboard allows for
interfacing with the low cost and readily available PC
peripherals such as EIDE hard disks, SCSI hard disks, DD, HD, ED
floppy disks, PCI and/or ISA ET4000 or Mach 64 graphics cards,
SVGA/VGA Monitors, AT style keyboards and more! Adding memory is
as easy as popping in PS/2 SIMMS! 8 memory slots organized in 4 +
1 banks allow for expansion right up to 1 Gigabyte! Hey, who
needs a hard drive with a Gigabyte RAM disk!
All DirecT40/T60 enjoy the standard TT external ports, SCSI,
Modem 1, Modem 2, LAN, MIDI in and MIDI out. For those who need
cartridge port and ACSI (DMA) port we will be offering in the
near future the DirecT40/T60 Plus which has a full ST compatible
I/O card.
Technical Specifications:
Case:
Full size tower case with 6 - 5.25" open front bays (one is used
for floppy), 3 - 3.5" internal bays, 250 Watt power supply, dual
fan ventilation system, CSA / UL approved.
Dimensions: 620mm (H) x 190mm (W) x 455mm (D) Weight 2.5 Kg.
Installed Peripherals:
Keyboard: AT 101 key.
Floppy: 1 with DD, HD and ED compatibility.
Hard Drive: Quantum 850 Mb EIDE Hard Drive.
Memory: 4 Mb minimum, expandible to 1 Gigabyte via 8 slots, 72
pin (PS/2) SIMM.
Video: ISA bus ET4000 graphics card with 1 Mb DRAM and NVDI
ET4000 driver, Resolution: 640 x 480 x 16.7 Million Colours, 800
x 600 x 65K, 1024 x 768 x 256 and 1280 x 1024 x 16 colours.
(expandable to PCI bus ATI Mach 64 with up to 4 Mb VRAM.)
DirecT40 Technical data:
Processor: MC68040 33/66MHz
Processing Power: 29.5 MIPS
Comparison: TT030 - 7 MIPS Factor Increase: over 4x's
Falcon030 - 3.74 MIPS Factor Increase: over 7x's
ST - 1 MIP?? Factor Increase: over 29x's
DirecT60 Technical data:
Processor: MC68060 60MHz
Processing Power: 120 MIPS
Comparison: DirecT40 - 29.5 MIPS Factor Increase: over 4x's
TT030 - 7 MIPS Factor Increase: over 17x's
Falcon030 - 3.74 MIPS Factor Increase: over 32x's
ST - 1 MIP?? Factor Increase: over 120x's
MIPS is Millions of Instructions per second and is used to rate
processing power and speed.
Internal ports:
4 PCI-bus slots
2 ISA-bus slots
1 VME-bus slot
1 EIDE (enhanced IDE) with max. 10MB/s for 2 devices
1 SCSI with max. 4MB/s for 1-7 devices (TT compatible)
1 floppy (DD/HD/ED) d.h. max 2.88MB
Modem 1 (25 pin Dsub-connector) with max. 19,200 baud
Modem 2 (9 pin Dsub-connector) with max. 250,000 baud
Local talk (8 pin Mini Din) with max. 250,000 baud
Printer 25 pin Dsub (TT/Falcon-compatible)
Midi-In/Out
PC keyboard connector (standard)
mouse and joystick (Atari compatible)
Pricing Information:
DirecT40:
The complete system, including medium height tower case, 68040
processor with FPU, 4MB RAM, 850Mb hard drive, floppy drive,
graphics card, PC-keyboard and mouse is $3799.99 Cdn. or $2739.99
US. or less**. FOB Edmonton.
DirecT60:
The complete system, including medium height tower case, 68040
processor with FPU, 4MB RAM, 850Mb hard drive, floppy drive,
graphics card, PC-keyboard and mouse is $4499.99 Cdn. or $3239.99
US. or less**. FOB Edmonton.
** Please Note, since these machines use standard PC/IBM
compatible peripherals, due to market conditions on these parts
the actual street price will vary, usually downward as the trends
on these parts are following this path currently. Check with us
for daily pricing.
Dealer enquiries are welcomed.
Other configurations are available on request! Every DirecT40/T60
is custom built by Computer Direct. This allows us to build the
system that you want, not the system somebody wants to sell you!
Compatibility:
DirecT40/T60 is fully compatible with all cleanly written GEM
applications that run on a stock TT. Software which accesses
hardware directly will not run. Some examples would be Warp 9
(VDI) and Software which requires TT High, cartridge port and
ACSI (DMA) port. DirecT40/T60 Plus motherboards will overcome
many of these problems due to the integrated ST I/O card which
contains the original Atari hardware. DirecT40 and T60 have been
tested extensively with the following software:
Please note: Products with known bugs on ST/TT are still listed
as Yes, these programs still exhibit these bugs on DirecT40/T60
but are just as useable as on an ST/TT. Comments are added for
some problem apps. Comments followed by "*" refer to DirecT40/T60
Plus motherboards with ST I/O card.
Application Type Comments
7 up text editor yes
ACS development yes
Argon backup yes
ATARI Works 1.0 word pro, database, spreadsheet yes
Arabesque Pro 2 graphic yes
Avant Vektor vector tracer yes
Calamus SL DTP yes
Calligrapher word processor yes
Chagall demo yes
Charly Image graphic yes
Connect telecomms yes
Convector vector tracer yes
Crazy Sounds II utility yes
Cubase 3.x MIDI/music yes
only ST-high*
Cypress 1.5 word processor yes
DA's Layout TC desktop publisher yes
Da's Picture graphic yes
DA's Repro graphic yes
DA's Vector vector edit/trace yes
DA's Vector Pro vector edit/trace/animation yes
DeskPic Desktop picture yes
Digitape harddrive-sampler yes
no DSP-sound*
Diskus disk utility yes
DynaCADD CAD yes
Ease Desktop yes
Edison editor yes
Everest editor yes
Fractals graphic yes
Freeway database yes
Gemini Desktop yes
GEM-View graphic-converter yes
GEMRAM utility yes
GFA-Assembler language yes
GFA-Basic language yes
GFA-Compiler compiler yes
GT-Look scanner-software yes
set cookies like TT
HD Driver hard disk driver yes
Harlekin utility yes
In Touch Personal info Manager yes
Inshape demo raytracer yes
Interface RCS yes
Kadinsky vectorgraphic yes
Kobold copier yes
LHarc packer yes
Lazy-Shell packer-shell yes
Linux 68/k operating system yes
Megapaint pro graphic program yes
Meta-DOS CD-ROM driver yes
but problems?
Midichord MIDI yes
Midnight screensaver yes
Morpher graphic yes
with FPU-Emulator
MIDIMAZE game yes
but inverted
Notator Logic MIDI/music yes
only ST-high*
NVDI ET-4000 screen accelerator yes
Outline Art vector edit/trace yes
Overlay graphic yes
without NVDI ET4000
Oxyd game yes
PageStream 2.x desktop publishing yes
Papillon graphic yes
Papyrus document processor yes
Phoenix database yes
Pixart graphic yes
Phase IV graphic yes
PhotoLine graphic yes
PKS-Edit editor yes
Poison virus finder yes
Positive Image graphic yes
POV-Ray Raytracer yes
with FPU-Emulator
Pure C language yes
Pure Pascal language yes
RSC RSC yes
ReproStudioPro image editor yes
Script text program yes
SCSI-Tools hard disk driver yes
Selectric file selector yes
StudioPhoto image editor yes
Signum III text program yes
Speedo 4&5 utility yes
ST-Zip packer yes
SysMon utility yes
Tempus-Word text program yes
TMS-Paint graphic yes
Beta-CranachStudio graphic yes
Beta-Compact graphic yes
Beta-Vektor graphic yes
TruePaint graphic yes
Turbo C language yes
Twilight screensaver yes
not all modules work
Twist database yes
Winx utility yes
XBoot utility yes
ZOO packer yes
Ordering and Quotations:
Computer Direct
10338-59 Avenue
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada. T6H 1E6
Toll Free (US and Canada): 800-547-9203 (orders only please)
Tel: 403-496-2488 Fax: 403-496-2489
Internet: http://compdirect.com
e-mail: info@compdirect.com
Disclaimer
The text of the articles is identical to the originals like they appeared
in old ST NEWS issues. Please take into consideration that the author(s)
was (were) a lot younger and less responsible back then. So bad jokes,
bad English, youthful arrogance, insults, bravura, over-crediting and
tastelessness should be taken with at least a grain of salt. Any contact
and/or payment information, as well as deadlines/release dates of any
kind should be regarded as outdated. Due to the fact that these pages are
not actually contained in an Atari executable here, references to scroll
texts, featured demo screens and hidden articles may also be irrelevant.