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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: x56h34 on January 17, 2005, 03:35:45 PM
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I'm auctioning a Blizzard PPC accelerator card (made by Phase 5) that comes with box, manual, registration card, and the original CD. I ship worldwide. PayPal accepted.
For more details please click here (http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=5157908818).
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Aww. I never got any mints in mine when I bought it :-(
Heh, I wonder what use the registration card is these days? :-D
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Just for kicks. :-)
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Oooo... I bet 'at wurf summit! :crazy:
-Edit- I'll have to dig my box out, I never did actually look at what was on the CD-rom :-?
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bloodline wrote:
Oooo... I bet 'at wurf summit! :crazy:
-Edit- I'll have to dig my box out, I never did actually look at what was on the CD-rom :-?
PowerUP developer material and stuff. There was also a lot of archived web content IIRC.
I got frustrated with the developer stuff on the CD pretty quickly. Fortunately, VBCC came along quite soon :-)
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Karlos wrote:
bloodline wrote:
Oooo... I bet 'at wurf summit! :crazy:
-Edit- I'll have to dig my box out, I never did actually look at what was on the CD-rom :-?
PowerUP developer material and stuff. There was also a lot of archived web content IIRC.
I got frustrated with the developer stuff on the CD pretty quickly. Fortunately, VBCC came along quite soon :-)
Yeah, I used to use vbcc... That experience put me off PPC programming for life :-D
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bloodline wrote:
Karlos wrote:
bloodline wrote:
Yeah, I used to use vbcc... That experience put me off PPC programming for life :-D
I dunno, I think you are being a bit unfair on it. Admittedly earlier versions were a bit buggy, but I found later versions pretty good and more than capable of outpacing gcc in code performace terms. I also found it quite handy for making quick mixed binaries - you have to manually handle your context switches in WOS though. Although I preferred this anyway, as I used to group OS calls (such as updating the display, switching buffers, gathering inuition messages into a local queue etc) into single 680x0 functions that required just one context switch.
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Is there any documentation on how to upgrade these cards from a 040 to a 060 chipset?
Just wondering if its simple to just plug in and out.
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What exactly is the 'PCB cleaning fluid' you mentioned in the description? I'm kinda curious about that.
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Erol wrote:
Is there any documentation on how to upgrade these cards from a 040 to a 060 chipset?
Just wondering if its simple to just plug in and out.
You'd need to change the voltage (IIRC the 060 uses a lower voltage (or was it the other way round)) and you would need to desolder the (surface mounted) 040 to replace it with a CPU socket (and resolder that using SMD equipment).
All that with a huge risk of f00king up a valuable BlizzardPPC card. Besides once OS4 for the Blizz is out of beta you're not going to use the 060 anyway.
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@Cymric:
Go to the following site for various PCB & Contact claners/degreasers and look under Tech Aids/Chemicals -> Chemicals -> Cleaning -> Degreaser (or Contact):
http://www.mcmelectronics.com
Basically, it's a spray-can cleaning compound, that you spray over a dirty motherboard or a PCB, a computer card, etc., and it degreases the dirt/dust buildup by washing it off, especially the sticky stuff, thus making the cleaning process easier than if you were to use a q-tip dipped in isopropyl alcohol and do it like that. :-)
Of course, it doesn't magically remove every single bit of dust, but it does help a lot. After the sprayed PCB dries off, you use a can of compressed-air to blow off the remaining bits of dirt that still may be left over, here and there, which now come off easily, even if they were sticky before you sprayed the board.
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That is a very nice PPC card, but why do people always say "mint box" when it has clearly nothing to do with sweets ;-)