Help me decide which accelerated boards to buy in the future?

[zyphoid]

Ok boys and girls with another show to look forward to amiwest, and all the optimism of an OS4.0 release for classic (just go with it!) which boards are we going to play with.  There are Eficka, coldfire, Sam, shark and ol' faithful cyberstorm/blizzards 603-604PPC? Which toys should we be playing with on our systems? I mean the holidays are coming soon and all! :-?

[zyphoid]

with the recent action of ppc cards i'm aprehensive about making a purchase if newer options become available
 

[Rbby]

With OS4 for Classic soon to be released I too am wondering about boards but because there's no new boards available for us classic owners we'll just have to store our machines in the closet and purchase a whole new system.

[koaftder]

I dont see os4 classic coming soon ): Sorry, the legal blocks, etc.

[motorollin]

1. Coldfire and Shark don't exist.
2. Efika and Sam don't run any Amiga operating systems

So if it's OS4 you're looking for, your only option is a classic Amiga PPC board. Assuming OS4 Classic is ever actually released.

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moto

[jimbo100]

motorollin wrote:
So if it's OS4 you're looking for, your only option is a classic Amiga PPC board. Assuming OS4 Classic is ever actually released.

Why would they release OS4 for classic?  There would be only 25 PPC users out there!

[Rbby]

jimbo,

There would be a lot more ppc classic users if the people who are holding onto extra boards would do those of us who want a ppc a favor amd sell their extra board.

[zyphoid]

yea, I know it's sarcasm, but there are alot more PPc users, out there, and potential cards too.

@Moto
seriously though, why then go through the trouble of premiering at Pianeta show if the hardware isn't os4 compatable...then the empty os4 classic boxes display ect. and there was a youtube post on one of these recent threads last week on the show with the sam in action presumably.  Ar you saying its an elaborate hoax. We've had them before.  On another note PORT OPENOFFICE FOR AMIGA!

[motorollin]

zyphoid wrote:
why then go through the trouble of premiering at Pianeta show if the hardware isn't os4 compatable...

What did they actually do when they got there?

zyphoid wrote:
then the empty os4 classic boxes display ect.

Empty boxes are just that - empty.

zyphoid wrote:
and there was a youtube post on one of these recent threads last week on the show with the sam in action presumably.

It didn't show it running OS4.

zyphoid wrote:
Ar you saying its an elaborate hoax

Not a hoax. Just a farce.

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moto

[nasty]

There would be a lot more ppc classic users if the people who are holding onto extra boards would do those of us who want a ppc a favor amd sell their extra board.

I own 3 PPC's cards, well 2 now but thats the reason I had 3. One knackers up due to its age then I always have a spare rather than trying to source another one thats gonna go for major £'s on ebay or simply get ripped off by many con people out there in amiga world. The only thing I can suggest to you and people wanting a PPC card is to place an advert on A.org (where my latest one came from) and be prepared to dig deep if required (Remember the favor aint selling a card cheap but simply just selling the card).

[zyphoid]

guess i'll wait then. I emailed them, i hope i get some clarification on this issue!

Damn Moto, no optimism huh? :-(

[motorollin]

zyphoid wrote:
Damn Moto, no optimism huh? :-(

How do you expect people to be optimistic about OS4 after being let down so many times?

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moto

[PPC]

I still have my PPC board (blizzard ppc) but my card is broken... like many others.
They are great cards that make the classic amiga still very much fun to use, but they are also very fragile (not to mention expensive 2nd hand)

Friend of mine has 3 (!!) csppc's all broken.....
from 1 the scsi is the dead, another the ppc, the 3rd i cannot remember.

Anyway, it's really time for some new hardware, also some of the ppc cards are nearly 10 years old now.

Is there no option that if we all stick our heads together so that we can have a new batch of blizz/csppc cards made ?
(with a faster 604e like 350Mhz clocked to 400Mhz)
Or is there still talent enough left that a new classic Amiga accellerator can be made within a reasonable period of time ?

At least that way we can get faster classic miggy's wich is also a welcome option (at least for me it is)

[Kronos]

@PPC

Redoing the P5-cards is impossible (some parts are impossible to get by now).
It would also cause problems with new regulations (ROHS), be downright expensive and still slow as hell.


Doing a pure PPC-card should be possible, but then why not doing the real McCoy and leave out the whole 68k-HW (remeber these boards are 10 years old MINIMUM).

Efika is still available, SAM should be available, there are 1000s of Pegs and 1000000s of PPC-Macs out there, so the HW ain't (and newer was) the problem.

[PPC]

@ kronos,

Good point about the parts not being available no more, did not thought about that (woops major bummer)

Good point also being with all that ppc hardware out there,
Uhmm but let's be honost, if and/or when are we going to see OS 4 on something like this seen the current situation.

Oh well i'll just have my ppc card repaired (it still works a bit, but after OS3.9 reboot it returns with a red screen..)