Possibly looking for 1260 card

[runequester]

in an attempt to explore the best options for my amigas, i am also wondering if someone has a 060 card for a 1200 theyd be willing to part with in a few weeks?

[orb85750]

I have one, but I really prefer not to part with it.  I would need to be compensated heavily.  :-)    (Blizzard 1260)

[runequester]

What constitutes "heavily" for you?

[Franko]

There is this one on evilbay uk, hasn't reached a crazy price yet but that doesn't usually happen until the last 15 minutes...

BLIZZARD060 32MB RAM

(actually bidding on it myself...

[runequester]

Trying to avoid ebay really. Thanks though.
 
A few conditions:
 
Card should obviously be work. If it needs repairs, I'll pass, as I can't fix it myself.
 
Not too too fussed with the amount of memory on it, but would prefer 32 megs or above.
 
The pain point might be that my budget here is 300 bucks. Hope that turns out realistic for a decent card.

[NovaCoder]

You might be better off with a brand new card instead.

Personally, that's what I decided to do as the last time I tried to shoe-horn a 1260 into my desktop it all got a bit painful.

[tone007]

If you check his sig, that's what he's already got.

There's no comparison, 1260 would make any '030 look like chopped liver.  My 1260 fit better into my desktop A1200 than a couple of '030 cards I've had, too.

[Franko]

Nope... nowt here either...

[Retrofan]

Why don't you ask Stan (Stachu100)? I believe he'll have one in a couple of weeks. With him you buy with confidence, and he uses to give them with a couple of cristals, latest mask, right fan... But it will be more than 300 (not much more, I believe).

[Iggy]

Good luck. There's one on Ebay right now and with over 4 hours left to go its already over $300.
I've stashed the components needed to upgrade a 1240 to a 1260, but its a grueling task and finding a decent 1240 isn't much easier.

[runequester]

Yeah, I know its a long shot. I am still a little bit on the fence about what to do in the long run. I may settle myself with my 030 for a while, and just work on other bits and pieces instead.

[Iggy]

Yeah, I know its a long shot. I am still a little bit on the fence about what to do in the long run. I may settle myself with my 030 for a while, and just work on other bits and pieces instead.

I have doubts about the claimed huge lead the '60 would have anyway.
There are limits to how far you can push an Amiga, and when you're funneling all that power down through a much slower chipset the losses get pretty significant.

Besides, you invest a crap load of money in this and someone with a Cyberstorm '060 running at 66Mhz in a 4000 is going to tell you his computer is faster than yours (or someone with an overclocked PPC board etc.).

Why not just be satisfied that you already have one seriously fast Amiga and leave it at that?

[runequester]

I have doubts about the claimed huge lead the '60 would have anyway.
There are limits to how far you can push an Amiga, and when you're funneling all that power down through a much slower chipset the losses get pretty significant.

Besides, you invest a crap load of money in this and someone with a Cyberstorm '060 running at 66Mhz in a 4000 is going to tell you his computer is faster than yours (or someone with an overclocked PPC board etc.).

Why not just be satisfied that you already have one seriously fast Amiga and leave it at that?

Hah, you know, you are probably entirely right

I dont't have any intention of running Quake, and as it turns out, Alien Breed 3D 2 is actually playable (when the damn thing decides to run, that is) on my card.
Web browsing is pokey but thats what it is. After I set it to use RAM disk as cache instead of the hard drive, it increased the speed by a bit, and for what I use it for, its quite workable.

So yeah, I think I'll focus my efforts on adding a few missing bits to this machine (printer and subway mainly) and eventually an Indivision to replace my external scan doubler instead.

The scan doubler I have works pretty good, but it doesn't like the interlace screen modes.

[Damion]

I would keep the desktop 1200 an '030 and leave it at that. Not worth it for the $300-600 you'd be spending on a 1260 card. The speed gain, especially with AGA, will probably not be what you're expecting, either. I'm downgrading my 1200D to an '030 because I get tired of the WHDLoad access fault kicking me back to WB 30 minutes into a game.

If you must, pick up a nice 2000/3000/4000 for major upgrades. A 2000 with an '040 and Spectrum can be loads of fun.

[Franko]

@Runequester

To be honest unless your going to be doing things other than playing games on the miggie then an 030 is your best bet, but then again things like AB3D, Breathless etc... do run a hell of a lot better with a properly set up 060 system...

Only ever came across one game using WHDLoad that wouldn't work properly on an 060 board and that was Pinball Fantasies AGA, never heard or came across the problem Damion speaks of when using WHDload & an 060 and I've tested and play thousands of them...

Only thing I would say if your still not sure about getting an 060 is if your going to use a lot of productivity software like PageStream, Final Writer, PPaint etc... then the difference is night & day when comparing an 30 & an 060...

The SubWay board is one of the handiest boards to add to an Amiga especially if you need to transfer a lot of file between the Amiga and a PC or MAC, but don't expect it to be of any use with a CD or DVD USB burner as it's way too slow to be used with one of those...

One of the best things to add to an 030 board for productivity software is an FPU but I'm not sure if you can do this on your board, but the speed increase with an FPU on an 030 can really make most productivity software come alive...