ACA 1230/28 Budget Accelerator Card for Amiga 1200?

[drHirudo]

Hello,
today while browsing at Vesalia for some goods I found the ACA 1230/28 accelerator.

ACA 1230/28
Budget Accelerator Card for Amiga 1200

The inexpensive ACA 1230 accelerator card comes with a 68EC030 CPU (clocked at 28 MHz, no MMU) and 64 MB of RAM, making it the affordable choice to turn your stock A1200 into a perfect retro gaming machine.

    * CPU 68EC030 @ 28 MHz
    * 64 MB RAM
    * MapRom function
    * RTC optional (not included with delivery)


Further information coming soon.


Item    Price in EUR
ACA-1230/28 incl. CPU 68EC030 (w/o MMU) and...    ACA-1230/28 incl. CPU 68EC030 (w/o MMU) and 64 MB RAM
This product is currently not available (ETA: November 27, 2010).
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(Individual Computers)    99.90

On my Amiga1200 I used Viper 1230/28MHz Turboboard + 68882 FPU. Will this board be faster?
The 64 MB sounds very good, but I remember that on my Viper if I was using 8 MB, the PCMCIA did not work, so I will not be able to use wireless. LAN is not option (too expensive for the A1200 and hard to find).

[amigakit]

This production run of ACA 1230/28 accelerator for Amiga 1200 is really good news.  AmigaKit.com webstores will be stocking this accelerator shortly with an A600 version also.

I can confirm that both accelerators are PCMCIA friendly, so will work with both EasyNet Wireless card for the A1200 / A600 and EasyNet Ethernet Card for A1200 / A600.

[Darrin]

What a bargain for the extra speed and RAM!  Nice.

[orb85750]

As always, love to see new hardware produced for the classic Amiga!  Nice price too.  I do wonder what they mean about turning your A1200 into a great retro gaming machine -- *upgrading* for retro games??  Still poor compatibility with many A500/2000 games -- or am I missing something here?

[drHirudo]

Good to know that the PCMCIA will work fine. With the LAN and Wireless adaptor I may connect my A1200 to the Internet again. Was time it was online was in 2004, when I still used Modem! I have free ports in the router and wireless antenna.

[TCMSLP]

As always, love to see new hardware produced for the classic Amiga!  Nice price too.  I do wonder what they mean about turning your A1200 into a great retro gaming machine -- *upgrading* for retro games??  Still poor compatibility with many A500/2000 games -- or am I missing something here?

Upgraded CPU and RAM for WHDLoad?


Steve

[drHirudo]

As always, love to see new hardware produced for the classic Amiga!  Nice price too.  I do wonder what they mean about turning your A1200 into a great retro gaming machine -- *upgrading* for retro games??  Still poor compatibility with many A500/2000 games -- or am I missing something here?

With the extra CPU and power more retro demanding games will work like Doom, Gloom, Fears and Genetic Species. With the extra RAM you can place all your favorite games to the RAM Disk and turn off the HD drive (I used to have a commodity for this). So the A1200 can turn into nice silent retro machine with cool games inside that can stay switched on for months.

[x56h34]

Nice. I wonder if it would be possible to swap the CPU/crystal, with appropriate 50Mhz parts.

[Heiroglyph]

Nice. I wonder if it would be possible to swap the CPU/crystal, with appropriate 50Mhz parts.

My guess is that one of the reasons for the low cost and multiple of 14 speed is that he's using the motherboard clock everywhere possible.

He seems to have cost/part reduced these to the greatest possible extent.

Great design IMHO, it should be very reliable.

[yssing]

My x-mas gift to myself will be the A600 card..

[vidarh]

Nice. I wonder if it would be possible to swap the CPU/crystal, with appropriate 50Mhz parts.

I don't think so, going on Jens' comments in this thread at EAB - seems it'd also need at least an upgrade of the programmable logic.

However there's a 56MHz version of the A1200 version on the way as well, though it won't be out as quickly (see the linked thread for more details).

[haywirepc]

wish they made this for amiga 500, I'd buy 3...

[runequester]

As always, love to see new hardware produced for the classic Amiga!  Nice price too.  I do wonder what they mean about turning your A1200 into a great retro gaming machine -- *upgrading* for retro games??  Still poor compatibility with many A500/2000 games -- or am I missing something here?

Relokick makes most games work.

The extra ram is useful for WHDload, and if you use a hard drive, AGA games tend to get annoyed if you only have 2 megs RAM total.

[drHirudo]

My x-mas gift to myself will be the A600 card..

The 600 version will cost 159 Euro, with half the RAM (32 MB) and no RTC option:

ACA 630/25
Accelerator Card for Amiga 600

    * CPU 68030 @ 25 MHz
    * 32 MB RAM
    * MapRom function
    * Sophisticated mechanical mounting


Further information and pictures of the sales version to follow shortly.

The image shows a prototype card and does not match the sales version.
 


Item    Price in EUR
ACA-630/25 incl. 32 MB RAM    ACA-630/25 incl. 32 MB RAM
This product is currently not available (ETA: November 27, 2010).
(Individual Computers)    159.00    Add item to your order

[fhansson1]

Wow! The 600 version looks awesome, what a great upgrade for that tiny computer!