CS MKIII Card Crapping Out Again..

[matthey]

I'd buy 2 or 3 accelerators at $350.

Did you notice the Atari accelerator uses PC-133 SDRAM and has 1MB of flash ROM all for 190 Euros? The demand for a newer Amiga 68k accelerator has to be bigger than for the Atari. We could contact this guy in France about making an Amiga accelerator if there was enough interest. Anybody else interested? Take a look around this guys web pages (kool stuff)...

http://www.czuba-tech.com/
http://www.czuba-tech.com/CT60/english/welcome.htm

[LoadWB]

I fixed my CS MKIII myself:

"Amiga 4000 is working again W00T!"

[alexh]

I couldnt make a profit on $350 without the sale of say more than 500 units. I wouldnt be able to sell that many I am sure. Plus the sudden availability will push the prices of all accelerators down.

[alexh]

matthey wrote:
Atari has a newer accelerator for 190 Euros...

A) It's not onsale anymore.
B) It was the only Atari 060 accelerator so had 100% market share.
C) The last run was over €300 ($450) with CPU!
D) It didnt need an expensive custom motherboard connector.

Are you saying that an Amiga accelerator can't approach that price? I think a modern 68k Amiga accelerator with more modern memory expansion selling in the 200-300 Euro range with a 1 year warranty would sell like hot cakes.

You are DREAMING. There just isnt enough A3k/A4k Amiga users out there who dont already have a reasonable accelerator.

Individual Computing, ACK, Elbox, they are not stupid. If there was a market they would have made something.

[Argus]

The real problem with repairing these cards (and Blizzard PPCs) is replacing the custom memory controller chips on these Phase 5 accelerators.  I have a perfectly good BlizzardPPC with a bad memory controller so 68060 & PPC work but no fast ram ergo no joy  :-(

Maybe someone out there could figure out a way to replace these custom chips; then a guy like JJB could do a proper surface mount replacement.

[pan1k]

Well my CSMKIII made to to France. JJB says its fixable for 150 Euros. Will post back later what the diagnosis is.

[pan1k]

I got the CSMKIII back last night. Can't get an answer out of JJB what the problem was ( I asked him in English and French), but it fired right up! From the looks of it the flashrom has some kind of sealer on it, i'm guessing that was the prob...

Damn iBrowse is blazingly fast and just about everything else is too.. boy did I miss it!

[HammerD]

@alexh

Count me in for 2 or three accelerators please.  "If you build it, they will come.".

Something that doesn't exist of course is going to get zero sales.  

I also believe if there was a brand new and reasonably priced accelerator for A3/4000(T) it would sell in the hundreds of units.

You could even sell it without 060 and users of existing boards could move their 060 over...would save on the cost.

Specs could be:

68060 socket
1 or 2 socket(s) for PC-133 memory (upto 512MB or 1GB)
UW SCSI similar to Cybervision PPC/MK3 SCSI
OR DMA IDE chip for fast IDE hard drive (better yet, two SATA ports instead of IDE).

bonus: gfx chip, ethernet, sound.

Let's not get carried away...

I'd be happy with the 060 socket and PC-133 RAM.

PowerPC accelerator...that would take the cake

[HammerD]

@pan1k

I think JJ is doing a roaring business there....I just got my Cyberstorm PPC repaired from him, too.  He replaced the 060 socket...

I also "fixed" the intermittant PPC by clamping it down tight to the board by using a big heavy, screwed-on heatsink.  So now the PPC is cool and reliable