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Re: WTB: VXL*30 PAL chips
« on: June 18, 2015, 09:39:05 AM »
I own a VXL*30, could never find the RAM board for it so it sits in it's original box on a shelf.

It's a New Zealand board so I would assume it's the PAL version, what do I need to check?
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Re: WTB: VXL*30 PAL chips
« Reply #1 on: June 19, 2015, 08:37:06 AM »
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Sweet!  I'd start with what revision is it (should be printed on the board or on a sticker), and what speed?


I shall go out to the dark dungeon known as the garage and look through my storage boxes :-)
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Re: WTB: VXL*30 PAL chips
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2015, 02:39:54 AM »






Version 2.0 so might be out of luck :-/
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Re: WTB: VXL*30 PAL chips
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2015, 07:00:43 AM »
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Shame that this board is pretty much useless without its ram.  I only have 2MB, but I configure it to load as much of the OS & libraries into that memory as possible, and leave the 16-bit fast on my GVP sidecar for applications.  She does allright, like that.  :)


It's basically a door stop with out the RAM card :-/ Sorry I couldn't help. I have another card here of different make/model which is also 030, needs a pin repair but before it broke I couldn't get the full amount of RAM to detect. But I think it's 2MB too, speeds the Amiga 500 up no end but it's nothing compared to the ACA cards. The ACA-1233 smokes it :-)

Some of these older cards are frustrating.

Going to have a huge clean up soon though and sell a lot of my Amiga gear and just keep the A1200T.

Although I will miss the ACA 500 + ACA-1233, but would like to focus on just the A1200T.
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Re: WTB: VXL*30 PAL chips
« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2015, 11:08:25 PM »
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Ah, I like the old stuff.  Even when it is frustrating.  I literally spent four hours last night and today pouring over the libraries in my A500 and A2000, making sure they all had the most updated versions as possible (wish Cosmos was still posting updates to his, especially!).  Anything to eek out every last bit of possible performance, I actually enjoy things like this.  ;)

Keep me in mind when you have your sale, although the boxes of stuff labeled "Amiga" next to my desk is stacked almost to my shoulders.  I could probably stand to get rid of a few things, too!  ;)


Bring back Cosmos, miss his updates. Especially enjoyed his mediator guide. Waiting on a few items so I can switch to SATA drives for the A1200 and will be using some of his libraries again for that.

It's getting out of hand in the garage so need to clean it up, can never find anything anyway in there ;-)
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Re: WTB: VXL*30 PAL chips
« Reply #5 on: July 07, 2015, 08:45:11 AM »
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I stopped for the moment any releases because I'm 99.99% certain there are some big bugs in the Voodoo.card from Elbox : http://warpclassic68k.blogspot.fr/2013/07/fichy-eng.html

I tried by email to convince Elbox to look deeper into this driver, but my english is too low to explain well...


A shame as you've made some great improvements that Elbox and other suppliers haven't. Would love an update to the Voodoo driver to enable the 2nd GPU on the Voodoo 5500 ;-)

I also wish someone would release a Warp3D update to support the Radeon cards on classic. That would be amazing :-)
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