*DONE DEAL* High spec A1200 in a tower wanted for trade.

[rossi46]

I'm fed up of waiting for a person on Ebay to reply to my mails - What I'm offering is a Cyberstorm PPC 060/50 accelerator and a CV ppc gfx card to trade for your A1200 in a tower. Preferably, your 1200 will have a Zorro board and at least an 040/50 with CD-Rom, hard drive and lots of RAM.  Let me know what you've got for me, please.

thanks

Paul

[Flashlab]

Aren't you that guy with all those Amiga parts found at a friend's house?

Why don't you build a 4000 with the CS-PPC and CV-PPC?

That will have better performance than a 1200 with Zorro. Remember that all 1200 Zorro boards only do Z-2 which is a lot slower than Z-3 on the 4000. The CV-PPC will be faster than any Zorro solution.

A 1200T is only worth it when you go PCI IMHO...

[motorollin]

Agreed - keep the A4000 parts and build an system from them. It will be much more satisfactory than an A1200 with a Zorro daughterboard.

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moto

[stopthegop]

The A1200 has two advantages as I see it.  For one, it is a lot easier to get a USB solution working in an A1200.
I have never been able to get my Subway working on my A4000 despite having tried it with clockports from an X-Surf, BuddhaIDE, and Kickflash.  None of them work.
But if I put the Subway on the clockport of my stock A1200, it works perfect!  I've had basically the same experience with the Delfina clockport, though at one time I did have it working off the BuddhaIDE.
I also had a PCI USB card working on my A4000 at one time, but that has since quit working also.  
So, just basing on personal experience, its seems USB is much simpler to implement on an A1200 vs. the A4000.  Just IMHO.
The other reason is the amount of RAM that is suported: A4000 with a CyberstormPPC, the Max is 128M, whereas an A1200 with a BlizzardPPC can use up to 256M.  Otherwise, Flashlab is right: Z3 is a better performance, but with PCI..who cares?  

 

[cv643d]

USB on Amiga is a luxury, not a necessity.

256 MB on an Amiga is not needed in most cases, 128 MB is overkill in some cases.

But A1200 with Z2 busboard is cool. You get the best of both worlds, AGA and access to cool Zorro cards. Z3 is plenty fast, I do not think PCI is that much faster.

[rossi46]

All I want to do is play some classic Amiga shooters. Right now, I'm sitting with a huge pile of stuff, 2 broken tower cases, 1 desktop (without panels) and a whole host of compatibility issues. The only floppy drive out of the 3 sitting here that works, only works intermittantly at best and I cant get any of the keyboards to work.

Simply put - I'm way too lazy and impatient to persevere any further.  :roll:  The alternative would be to stick various bits on E-Prey and easily fund an A1200 purchase, but I thought I'd do the decent thing and offer the enthusiasts here first shout.

I have a dual-core PC (this one) and two other lesser PCs for gaming and other stuff - I just want to play Breathless and Alien Breed 3D on an Amiga with minimum fuss  :-)

Paul

[stopthegop]

Thats what my wife says about all my Amiga hardware.  Its a luxury, not a necessity.    I beg to differ..  

[rossi46]

LOL I collect retro games and consoles - I have since they were current and my collection is rapidly heading towards a four figure amount of titles. My wife keeps asking when I'm going to 'grow out of it'  :-?

I'm 40 next year, so i don't reckon there's much hope!

The A1200 thing, though:  The Zorro board is not compulsory, I'm just wanting the best spec I can get.

[Flashlab]

If that's the case you'll get best FPS performance on WinUAE with the least amount of fuss. But that's not what you want to hearI guess ;-)...

[BinoX]

Sent you a PM. Although not a trade, does contain useful information

[rossi46]

The offer is no longer available. Thanks to all who took an interest.

Paul