My first accelerated Amiga: the Z3660 and Motorola 68060 CPU!

This new all-in-one adds 16-bit graphics and sound, ethernet, SCSI, and more… so what can you do with a crazy upgraded Amiga anyway?

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00:00 Introduction
01:10 The Z3660 and the Motorola 68060
04:42 Benchmarking stock Amiga 3000
06:16 Installation
12:00 Connecting it all up
14:43 First startup and ZTop
17:20 Benchmarking the 68060 @ 100MHz
18:44 Benchmarking the emulated 68040
20:20 Firmware updating
21:14 Demo: RTG, MP3, Video
23:00 Demo: Browsing the Internet
23:55 Demo: Duke Nukem 3D
25:48 Demo: Shadow Warrior
26:47 Demo: Descent
28:03 Demo: Doom
29:28 Demo: ScummVM / Day of the Tentacle
31:03 Demo: ScummVM / Full Throttle
31:59 Demo: ScummVM / Return to Zork
34:05 Demo: ScummVM / Kings Quest V
35:35 Demo: ScummVM / Space Quest IV
36:22 Benchmarking Mac Emulation
38:00 Demo: Star Wars Dark Forces in Mac Emulation
39:28 Demo: ChatGPT
42:14 Conclusion

[UsagiElectric]

Duuude! Full Throttle, let's go! One of the greatest games of all time. I think I've played it to completion maybe 20 or 30 times now.
Wild to see it on an Amiga for sure!

[nhan]

More than anything, this video made me miss my Amiga 3000. It was such a beautiful machine, and I maxed it out to 18 MB RAM, if I recall. Love to see an A3000 in action in 2025!!

[DigitalCircus]

Great video and another reason to pull my A4000 out of thw attic and do another complete rebuild. 😁

[BräinDyne]

Thank you for this awesome review. Very detailed and well made. This really is a good video even for experienced amiga users. Kudoz for doing it in a very well paced and progressive way. Quite technical, but yet not too technical to lose the viewer. Those 43 minutes went by as if they were 5 mins :) Good job! I will subscribe.

[Thiesi]

This is by far the coolest tech project I've heard about this year.

[billgaudette]

That price sure beats the $1600 I spent way back when to put a Mega Midget Racer (68030-33 plus FPU and 2MB of fast Static RAM) in my Amiga 2000 :) I love that folks are still creating hardware for my favorite line of computers. It's too bad my system is lost in time; I had it all kitted out with a Video Toaster for creating commercials for the local TV station. So much fun, it was like showing magic tricks to people who thought that those types of videos could only be created with systems that cost tens of thousands of dollars...

[AG-bpll]

Such a great video. The Amiga was such a classic.

[leonkiriliuk]

Love your content. Just when I thought I've seen it all when it comes to Amiga, you create an in depth review of something new and exciting. Keep up the great work!

[xaviernolasco]

As always dear Matt great videos! Thank you! Regrads from México

[eskwadrat]

Great video because it talks about things that other videos don't. Thank you for doing the test and sharing results and the most helpful tips and tricks.

[KarlStevens]

Very cool - I have a Cyberstorm MK2 68060 and used Lightwave back in the day. Something to note about Lightwave - it was heavily optimized for the 68060 and that likely explains the performance difference between the ARM and the 68060 you ran. For real-world software that wasn't 060 optimized you likey will see results closer to the numbers given by SysInfo.

[Voyager_]

I have a Pi-Stormed A2000, with a Zorro network and 16bit audio card. At this speed even Netsurf is usable now. SMB2 networking is also nice. I hope more software for high-end amiga's is going to be developed.

[Jivemaster]

Dont forget so secure the card with screws on the two metal spacers on the motherboard.In the video we can see that card sitting at a dangerous angle because it wasnt secured

[MrSlipstreem]

This reminds me of the day when adding a separate math co-processor to my 386 PC sped up fractal pattern generation by a factor of 100. There wasn't much else it helped with to be honest but, oh boy, did those fractals fly!😄

[ferrellsl]

Accelerators for the Amiga are great, but the Amiga's custom chipset is a real bottle neck/choke point and later CPUs (> 68000) could outperform the chipset easily on such things as blitter operations. RTG graphics and AHI audio are OS hacks to get around this though. The custom chipset sits on a 16-bit bus while the 68060 is 32-bit which causes further wait states. It's too bad that Commodore folded before delivering a 32-bit bus and a 32-bit chipset. The computing world would be very different today had Commodore been proactive. The minor improvements they DID deliver were too little, too late.

[EdgeOfPanic]

Cards like the Z3660 and PiStorm really brought some new life to our classic Amiga's and the best part is they are affordable, we've probably never seen so many hyper charged Amiga's with RTG etc. as in the past few years!
Running a PiStorm32+CM4 in my A1200 and it's just stupid fast and I like it 😎

[sir_anders]

I just spent $400 on a new Mediator for my Amiga 4000D with a new Sandblaster (that have optical out) and a new Radeon with DVI so I can be all digital - And I already have two Amiga 4000D converted towers, one runs AmigaOS 4 on my Cyberstorm PPC and the other have a MK2 060 - These machines are so fun working with

AmigaAMP is even more fun when you consider Internet radio as most stations still stream MP3 - I was able to listen to a lot of music last weekend thanks to TuneFinder.

I have wanted to get a Z3660 for ages as one of my 3640 died last year.

[chainqk]

Someone who's been lucky enough to have Amigas that rocked '060s and RTG cards all the way from the very early 2000s (when "everyone" were getting rid of these, so the prices were at rock bottom, swimming against the tide is fun sometimes), it's always great to see others finally discover the extra horsepower and what that brings to the table.

[cubeflinger]

Look at all this stuff that a PC can do but on an Amiga. It's pretty cool, not hating but I think I prefer running Amiga stuff on an Amiga.

[swoovko]

Really great video! Great machine, great extensions!