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Re: ACA 1230/28 Budget Accelerator Card for Amiga 1200?
« Reply #14 on: December 15, 2010, 10:45:33 AM »
Wow! The 600 version looks awesome, what a great upgrade for that tiny computer!
 

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Re: ACA 1230/28 Budget Accelerator Card for Amiga 1200?
« Reply #15 on: December 15, 2010, 01:30:57 PM »
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The 600 version will cost 159 Euro, with half the RAM (32 MB) and no RTC option:

The lack of RTC is to be expected of course. On an A600, you get an RTC along with most trapdoor ChipRAM expansions. The Individual Computers A603 is your friend here. :-)
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Re: ACA 1230/28 Budget Accelerator Card for Amiga 1200?
« Reply #16 on: December 15, 2010, 06:16:24 PM »
I suddenly feel the urge to purchase classic Amiga hardware.
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Re: ACA 1230/28 Budget Accelerator Card for Amiga 1200?
« Reply #17 on: December 17, 2010, 01:33:38 PM »
I wish they would make a 060 model.  :)
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Re: ACA 1230/28 Budget Accelerator Card for Amiga 1200?
« Reply #18 on: December 17, 2010, 02:11:03 PM »
In case no one noticed AmigaKit's announcement earlier, there's also a beefier A600 version on the way, 30MHz instead of 25MHz and 64MB of RAM instead of 32MB.  All for only roughly $50USD more.
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Re: ACA 1230/28 Budget Accelerator Card for Amiga 1200?
« Reply #19 on: December 17, 2010, 02:23:49 PM »
Please note: the ACA630/30Mhz version only is sold out now.

However the ACA630/25Mhz is still available.
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Re: ACA 1230/28 Budget Accelerator Card for Amiga 1200?
« Reply #20 on: December 17, 2010, 02:27:50 PM »
Woops, guess everybody heard ;)
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Re: ACA 1230/28 Budget Accelerator Card for Amiga 1200?
« Reply #21 on: December 17, 2010, 02:43:54 PM »
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Woops, guess everybody heard ;)


Man, that did not take long :lol:

My A600 needs repairing. It's just as dead as a doornail. There's no obvious motherboard malaise, you switch on the power, nada. Not even the LED lights up.
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Re: ACA 1230/28 Budget Accelerator Card for Amiga 1200?
« Reply #22 on: December 17, 2010, 04:29:20 PM »
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Man, that did not take long :lol:

My A600 needs repairing. It's just as dead as a doornail. There's no obvious motherboard malaise, you switch on the power, nada. Not even the LED lights up.


Dead psu?
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Re: ACA 1230/28 Budget Accelerator Card for Amiga 1200?
« Reply #23 on: December 17, 2010, 04:41:23 PM »
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Dead psu?


Well, that was my first thought, but I've tested it on known good PSUs, to no avail.
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Re: ACA 1230/28 Budget Accelerator Card for Amiga 1200?
« Reply #24 on: February 15, 2011, 12:38:38 PM »
Just put in an order for the ACA 1230/28 on amigakit! So now I just need to get my hands on an Amiga 1200! :lol:
 
Has anyone got any experience with this card?
 
I dont really care for the cpu-upgrade, I just wanted to make sure I got enough ram when i get my Amiga 1200 so I can use whdload properly.
 
I probably should have asked here first about the easiest way to add ram to an Amiga 1200, but 100 euro is not that much money and I'm afraid these things will go out of stock.
 

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Re: ACA 1230/28 Budget Accelerator Card for Amiga 1200?
« Reply #25 on: February 15, 2011, 01:55:30 PM »
I just brought one this lunch time, probably not the best person to ask though as I don't know that much about it all! I brought a battered old amiga 1200 off ebay a while ago and have been rebuying all the games of my youth. Plus bringing a little shine back to the thing.

Thought I would give whdload a spin and got a hard drive full of games and this expansion card seems the most reasonable in terms of pricing to get that working.

But as I said, apart from some A500 gaming in the my late teens my amiga knowledge is puddle deep!
 

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Re: ACA 1230/28 Budget Accelerator Card for Amiga 1200?
« Reply #26 on: February 15, 2011, 02:41:21 PM »
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Man, that did not take long :lol:

My A600 needs repairing. It's just as dead as a doornail. There's no obvious motherboard malaise, you switch on the power, nada. Not even the LED lights up.


That's one of the best sorts of problem to fix... it might seem terrible but it's not, it probably just means the +5V line is kaput, you need to check the capacitors and all that but it's probably just a resistor that's gone (or even a fuse if there is one). Chances are that as soon as you get a good 5V line the whole machine will be just fine.

Given the choice between repairing a machine with nothing happening and a machine which works 90% of the time but occasionally goes wrong, I know which I'd rather have, any day!

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Re: ACA 1230/28 Budget Accelerator Card for Amiga 1200?
« Reply #27 on: February 15, 2011, 04:27:37 PM »
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Just put in an order for the ACA 1230/28 on amigakit! So now I just need to get my hands on an Amiga 1200! :lol:
 
Has anyone got any experience with this card?
 
I dont really care for the cpu-upgrade, I just wanted to make sure I got enough ram when i get my Amiga 1200 so I can use whdload properly.
 
I probably should have asked here first about the easiest way to add ram to an Amiga 1200, but 100 euro is not that much money and I'm afraid these things will go out of stock.


I have the 56 version and it is a damn good card. 64 megs of RAM is basically unlimited RAM, as far as a 1200 is concerned :)
 

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Re: ACA 1230/28 Budget Accelerator Card for Amiga 1200?
« Reply #28 on: February 15, 2011, 07:35:03 PM »
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I just brought one this lunch time, probably not the best person to ask though as I don't know that much about it all! I brought a battered old amiga 1200 off ebay a while ago and have been rebuying all the games of my youth. Plus bringing a little shine back to the thing.

Thought I would give whdload a spin and got a hard drive full of games and this expansion card seems the most reasonable in terms of pricing to get that working.

But as I said, apart from some A500 gaming in the my late teens my amiga knowledge is puddle deep!


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Re: ACA 1230/28 Budget Accelerator Card for Amiga 1200?
« Reply #29 from previous page: February 15, 2011, 08:13:48 PM »
Quote from: fruitlesseffort;615711
I just brought one this lunch time, probably not the best person to ask though as I don't know that much about it all! I brought a battered old amiga 1200 off ebay a while ago and have been rebuying all the games of my youth. Plus bringing a little shine back to the thing.
 
Thought I would give whdload a spin and got a hard drive full of games and this expansion card seems the most reasonable in terms of pricing to get that working.
 
But as I said, apart from some A500 gaming in the my late teens my amiga knowledge is puddle deep!

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