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Re: Software hut has advertised new GVP accelerators
« on: April 05, 2009, 02:06:32 AM »
When I look at what I paid for a 68040 card for my A4000 not long ago then their 68060 card seems like damn good value to me considering that it is new and covered for 12 months.  Ditto for the A2000 68060 card.  Great stuff!

I'm a little surprised at the A1200 68030 card.  It's at the price I expected, although I expected it to have SCSI and some RAM included and not have to pay extra.

Still, these guys are talking a gamble and spending some serious money to make this run so good luck to them.

I'm really tempted to pick up a 68060 for the A4000 and eBay my 68040 card.
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Re: Software hut has advertised new GVP accelerators
« Reply #1 on: April 05, 2009, 02:09:31 AM »
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I'm a bit surprised to see the Spectrum card listed. Still, a new supply of ZorroII/III RTG graphics cards is nothing to scoff at.


I'm not familiar with the Spectrum card, but anything that will allow a modern screen resolution for websurfing is a must.  There's no point in upgrading your A2000 with a 68060 and a Deneb so you can try and surf the Internet in an ECS 4 colour super high-res interlaced flickering screen.  :)
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Re: Software hut has advertised new GVP accelerators
« Reply #2 on: April 06, 2009, 05:37:21 PM »
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trilobyte wrote:

I wonder how they are sourcing the chips for all of these boards?  How in the world can ancient NCR 53x710 SCSI chips still be in manufacture??

- tb


As we haven't seen any pictures of the boards, we're assuming that they are identical to the old production runs.  In the Software Hut advertising is mentiosn "based on" or similar in a few places.  The designs may well have been tweaked slight to use new chips and parts.

I see that nobody has dared to mention RoHS which might explain why a North America based company is selling them.
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Re: Software hut has advertised new GVP accelerators
« Reply #3 on: April 06, 2009, 08:03:32 PM »
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Except customs, who really care ?

Got no luck, i would have a 2060 but i have to send to repair my sony Ev-S9000 for a close amount... :boohoo:


I don't.

I'm sat here wondering how I can sneak an Indivision 4000 and a 4060 past my wife.  Hmmmm...

Damn, a really bad time for a repair bill to arrive.  :(
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Re: Software hut has advertised new GVP accelerators
« Reply #4 on: April 06, 2009, 09:44:52 PM »
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Amiga-news.de did: "These products probably will be not delivered to Europe because it is a remake of old developments which do not square with the RoHS-directive."

I imagine that means there'll be no European distributor, but I don't see what would stop European users from ordering directly from Softhut...

For the most part, I think RoHS is a great thing, since so much commodity PC hardware ends up in the garbage. As far as Amiga stuff, though, I'm kinda glad the US isn't enforcing it. The odds of Amiga stuff, especially new gear like this, ending up in a landfill are (I hope) very, very small.


Cheers for that.

I agree that RoHS isn't a bad thing, but I wish EU laws were a bit more flexible to allow non-RoHS components to be marketed for devices developed before RoHS laws cam into effect.
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Re: Software hut has advertised new GVP accelerators
« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2009, 02:55:45 PM »
I wish there was more information available on these boards.  I just when to Software Hut and threw a 4060 board and some RAM into the shopping basket and stopped myself during check-out as I realised that nobody has actually seen these boards, posted pictures of them or reviewed them.
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Re: Software hut has advertised new GVP accelerators
« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2009, 03:16:51 PM »
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save2600 wrote:
Somebody mentioned that Joe/Softhut hasn't actually received them yet. 10 days the post said. I'd buy this stuff from Joe with confidence. Even when I had a problem with my GVP ram, he quickly responded and took care of it. Looks like the first few from A.org that ordered will be reviewing this stuff! Wouldn't that suck to have missed out on a 4060 in the meantime?   :madashell:

Seriously, it would be interesting to know how many of each item have been produced...


Yeah, I trust Joe too and I've ordered from him in the past and had excellent service.  It's the people who are supplying him and the quality of their work is what is worrying.  I'd hate to miss out on a 4060 board too.

I currently have a Warp Engine 68040/40MHz with 64MB of RAM.  Am I likely to see much speed inprovement for things like Web Surfing in high graphic sites?

If I get a 4060 then the Warp card can go in my A3000.  :-)
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Re: Software hut has advertised new GVP accelerators
« Reply #7 on: April 07, 2009, 03:43:02 PM »
@ Save2600

Thanks for all the info.  I like to go by someone's "real world experience" than look at a bunch of numbers and it certaily sounds like a worthwhile upgrade.
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Re: Software hut has advertised new GVP accelerators
« Reply #8 on: April 27, 2009, 06:06:17 PM »
I'm waiting until someone here actually has one in their hands and says they work.

Call me cynical, but I'm the proud owner of a $50 Amiga Inc coupon and I'm still entitled to 50 quid off the price of an Amiga-on-a-PCI-card.  :-D
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