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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: mcostanza on September 23, 2004, 04:28:59 PM
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I remember several years ago, GVP was reborn as GVP-M and re-released a number of products (Spectrum Gfx board, accelerator cards, GVP memory SIMM's etc..)
Anyone know if they are still around?
Regards,
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They were a while ago, but I don´t know now... Their website seems to be ( temporarily? ) down...
http://www.gvp-m.com/
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That's too bad. I always got the impression that GVP was very close with the C= engineers. Their stuff just seemed to work so well with very little hassle.
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IIRC, GVP-M just sold left over stock and at best did a extra production run. Nothing new ever came from GVP-M.
In their day, GVP had some of the best products. Just loved their Accelerator Hard drive combo for the A500 :-)
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Being a former employee from the "King of Prussia PA" days I regret to inform you that GVP-M is no Longer alive...
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Care to give us a brief history of the company or share any interesting stories? What was your involvement with GVP?
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Sure.. When I get a break I'll give you the whole story..
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I agree.. every ad I ever saw, I always thought GVP had the best products.
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vpcs wrote:
Being a former employee from the "King of Prussia PA" days I regret to inform you that GVP-M is no Longer alive...
Is there any chance we could get some technical info from them? Sort of like Dave Haynie did with his work? I'd love to have the pinout info for the expansion connector on the 030 combo card for the 2000. I've always thought someone could hack a PCI slot onto it... maybe even a hack to make it look like something the 1200 or 4000 pci solutions could use...
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Well, I think that Phase 5 have had better products, however...GVP seemed to support every Amiga platform (other than A600) as far as accelerator cards go.
A530 would be nice to own, but the whole shebang with getting the thing to play along nicely, such as getting a guru rom v6 for it, removing passive termination (soldered resistors), and custom memory, really kill it for me. :-(
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@VPCS
Sure.. When I get a break I'll give you the whole story..
Cool, it be nice to get some background info on GVP and GVP-M, sorta like deathbed vigil.
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JimS wrote:
vpcs wrote:
Being a former employee from the "King of Prussia PA" days I regret to inform you that GVP-M is no Longer alive...
Is there any chance we could get some technical info from them? Sort of like Dave Haynie did with his work? I'd love to have the pinout info for the expansion connector on the 030 combo card for the 2000. I've always thought someone could hack a PCI slot onto it... maybe even a hack to make it look like something the 1200 or 4000 pci solutions could use...
Sadly I left before their demise to work for Electronics Bouitique so As far as tech docs I have none. I still have a few left over goodies from the early days but thats about it. At the time I was more in sales and advertising and worked in the test lab.. It was one hell of a Job I only wished it lasted longer..
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I love GVP products. They were the shiznit back in the day. Loved the G-Force 040 card for the 2000! I had that until I got my 4000 in 98. In 2002 I bought a brand new GVP T-Rexx 4060 card from Software Slut. I love this card! It came with a socketted oscillator and 060 chip so I installed a 68060RC60 and a 66Mhz oscillator and the card screams. I only need to get better cooling for my poor 4000D.
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vpcs wrote:
Sadly I left before their demise to work for Electronics Bouitique so As far as tech docs I have none. I still have a few left over goodies from the early days but thats about it. At the time I was more in sales and advertising and worked in the test lab.. It was one hell of a Job I only wished it lasted longer..
Ahh well, it doesn't hurt to ask. :-) I know what you mean about old jobs. I have a lot of good memories of the time I spent working in an Amiga store. We had good luck with all the GVP products we sold... except maybe that 286 board. :-)
When the store folded, I went to work for EDS and miss that job even more.
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I bought my A530 back in 1992. It still runs great. The 8 MB RAM and 2 MB DKB Megachip has been sufficient for my needs.
I recently obtained a VXL 30/RAM 32 and a SupraDrive XP that is showing 14 MB RAM avail (after ROMS remapped to 32 bit memory), that also seems to be an impressive system. More RAM than I know what to do with!!!! Thanks jonbyk!
The thing I like about the Supradrive over the A530 thus far is the Zorro II expansion bus on the side. I am starting to think about a LAN card. Any suggestions?
The VXL 30/32 is mounted in the A500 console (CPU Socket), and given the size of the board, installing is impossible with other add upgrades such as DKB Megachip, or ICD flicker fixer without a lifting kit. I like GVP's idea of mounting everything into the sidecar, plus the addition of the cooling fan.
Both systems are connected via parnet, and cross-machine debugging host->remote using cprx (SASC/C++) now is much faster, compared to before with a stock A500.
I'm thinking of running some speed test to compare the performance of the A530 vs VXL out of curiosity, but I suspect they will bench mark quite close. What benchmark progs do you guys reccomend ? (both systems running 3.1 ROMS).
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Hi Tjlazer
I have an A4k Video Toaster with the GVP Trexx 040. I need the software though. Can you PM me about this please? Thank you in advance.
magnetic
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Hi mcostanza
Software Hut has the right or something similar, of the GVP-M (IIRC)
Ask them for infos
Ciao
PS- i'll try to search the last mail i've received from them
CORRECTION- "Software Hut, Inc."
They HASN'T the right but has access to the GVP stock
BTW- great Company, indeed . . .i'm stiil using a TBCPlus with 2 MB of VRAM, Comb Filter and SMTPE/EBU module-chip.
And what about IV24? :-) . . . great!
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"The thing I like about the Supradrive over the A530 thus far is the Zorro II expansion bus on the side."
FYI I have some new Supradrives available and a used A530
including many other hard to get Amiga items.