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Offline fondpondforeverTopic starter

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Is this the card you would need to run AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Classic on an Amiga 1200?

Blizzard 1200/4

http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/blizzard1200
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Offline QuikSanz

without a PPC on board? no.
 

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@fondpondforever

you'll need a blizzard ppc. and they tend to be fairly rare these days.

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4.1 for classics requires a PowerPC accelerator card.

Google can tell you the system requirements, or you can read them here: http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=47&products_id=1222
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That card won't even let you run OS 3.9
The card you'll need, but should in all honesty not bother with, is the Blizzard PPC. One recently sold on Ebay for a little over US$1,000 http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/292095658735?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT
It did have the companion BVision card which is another thing you'll want for OS 4.1 for Classic.
And it pretty much requires a towered A1200.
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or buy yourself an X5000, after all once you have paid top dollar on Ebay for the rare Power PC accelerator plus the other bits and pieces you are then going to want to add on to the A1200 like a Tower,  USB ports, Indivision DVI card, Elbox Mediator PCI slots etc for a  graphics card etc  The X5000 works out less ;-)
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I'd say forget it, those things are much more expensive than Blizzard 1200/4.
you can emulate ppc now with UAE.
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I'd say forget it, those things are much more expensive than Blizzard 1200/4.
you can emulate ppc now with UAE.


IF you want to emulate an A1200 with a PPC card on your PC, which always seemed like a weird way to downgrade your hardware to me.

I'd buy the X5000 too. I would greatly outperform the real or emulated PPC equipped A1200 in NG apps.

Otherwise...stick with Windows, MacOS, Linux.
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