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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: Hodgkinson on October 11, 2007, 12:06:19 PM
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Just thought I'd bring your attention to this company in the UK:
http://www.analogic.co.uk/Amiga_Addons&Upgrades.html
Hodgkinson.
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I bought an A1200 and an Apollo Accelerator from them at around 2001 as a treat. It came boxed and have all the WB discs and Magic Pack. Looking at their prices, an A1200 Magic Pack is a heck of a lot cheaper than a certain Amiga Specialist which is still around today.
About two months ago, I emailed them to enquire if they had any stock left, but nobody answered. If anybody has any contact with the company, please spread your success stories!
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I would never buy from them again
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Hi,
I had my first A4K desktop upgraded about 7 years ago by Analogic and they did a good job.
Kind Regards, Michael
aka rockape
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@tirediflife
Why not what happened?
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hum.... I had a look at them.
Seems their refurbished x86 laptops are actually MORE EXPENSIVE then what you can buy NEW at sites like www.ebuyer.com in the UK....
makes me wonder :-o
Tom
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eeeek
http://www.analogic.co.uk/PC_IntelSlot1.html
£101.05 for a 600Mhz slot-1 cpu ??? if anyone wants an 800Mhz one you can have it for free (minus shipping) from me !
what a rip-off....
Tom
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I have send 2 Access Boards (Amiga Clones) to Analogic to repair.
I never became any answer, they have never send the boards back to me.
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I had a board from them back in 98, it never worked.
I doubt they've actually got the boards in stock anyway.
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Had problems buying a board from them in the past.
Took my money quick enough but had to wait a while for said board, many excuses.
Finally turned up but was dead.
Many more months waiting for a replacement but just more excuses.
Saw the board elswhere, so asked for my money back.
More excuses no sign of my money.
Phone calls not returned, faxes ignored.
Finally just spent a day harrasing the receptionist with constant calls, until she gave in and insisted that the company owners pay back my money and get me off her back.
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They also charge £300 for an Atari STE. What a rip off, who would pay £300 for 1992 technology?
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HopperJF wrote:
They also charge £300 for an Atari STE. What a rip off, who would pay £300 for 1992 technology?
hmmm.... I wonder....
that'll set the cat amongst the pigeons !!
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I heard stories in the past that a lot of the amiga hardware they had was badly refurbished stuff and that the customer service isnt all too good
My personal experience. I got a Squirrel off them and it took a few weeks to arrive but did arrive and worked fine until I upgraded to 060 and discovered that the 060 software on the disk didnt work.
I then tried to get an Apollo 060 card off them but I kept getting told they had none but were expecting them in a week and they would send it out. They never did get any and even stopped advertising them. I ended up going somewhere else and getting it cheaper
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I think this thread was what I expected, but wasnt what I hoped for from the title - I imagined that someone in the UK had tooled up for a production run of accelerators. I'd go for anything better than this (http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=107) (I have the 25MHz version - it only accepts a solitary 8MB SIMM), and pay reasonable money for it.
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HopperJF wrote:
They also charge £300 for an Atari STE. What a rip off, who would pay £300 for 1992 technology?
STs still seem to have a big following in music due to the midi capabilities. It's like the sitch with A4000s a few years ago when video companies still absolutely relied on them for toastering.
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Personally, I haven't had any problems with them. I remembered back when I got my A1200 the audio output levels were very low. They took it back and fixed it and returned it within a month. (A bit long though)
The courier tried to charge me for the pick-up, but when I called their receptionist, they admitted to the mistake and solved the problem.
But, that was back in 2001.
Anyone purchased anything from them in the last 12 months or so?
Unfortunately, "new" Amiga hardware at affordable prices are hard to come by these day!
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Agafaster wrote:
I imagined that someone in the UK had tooled up for a production run of accelerators. I'd go for anything better than this (http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=107) (I have the 25MHz version - it only accepts a solitary 8MB SIMM), and pay reasonable money for it.
Yeah we could use a run of accelerators with sockets that take either '040s or '060s have a couple of SIMM slots, or even a SODIMM slot, and have a mini-PCI socket for a network or wireless card.
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Just to add my two pence: I've ordered a CD32, and their weird CD32 floppy drive, and both arrived quickly and seem to be fine. So, no complaints from me.
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RW222 wrote:
Agafaster wrote:
I imagined that someone in the UK had tooled up for a production run of accelerators. I'd go for anything better than this (http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=107) (I have the 25MHz version - it only accepts a solitary 8MB SIMM), and pay reasonable money for it.
Yeah we could use a run of accelerators with sockets that take either '040s or '060s have a couple of SIMM slots, or even a SODIMM slot, and have a mini-PCI socket for a network or wireless card.
but you can do the networking with a PCMCIA card !
better to use the miniPCI for USB or graphics.
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Agafaster wrote:
I imagined that someone in the UK had tooled up for a production run of accelerators. I'd go for anything better than this (I have the 25MHz version - it only accepts a solitary 8MB SIMM), and pay reasonable money for it.
I had one of those apollo boards before a blizzard 030 and then a blizzard 060.
I actually thought it was a good card, even with only 8mb.
Mine actually came with a 4mb simm in it and had to physically jam a double sided 8mb one in, it only just fit.
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Great name for the company though :lol:
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i've waited an eternity to bad mouth them! they sent me an accelerator that never worked right. it took ages for them to offer a return and when it got there they decided to keep £25 as a restocking fee. i have swore vengence on them and will never buy from them again. they used to advertise in af before it went down. :madashell:
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Agafaster wrote:
RW222 wrote:
Agafaster wrote:
I imagined that someone in the UK had tooled up for a production run of accelerators. I'd go for anything better than this (http://www.amiga-hardware.com/showhardware.cgi?HARDID=107) (I have the 25MHz version - it only accepts a solitary 8MB SIMM), and pay reasonable money for it.
Yeah we could use a run of accelerators with sockets that take either '040s or '060s have a couple of SIMM slots, or even a SODIMM slot, and have a mini-PCI socket for a network or wireless card.
but you can do the networking with a PCMCIA card !
better to use the miniPCI for USB or graphics.
Can you just swap the crystal, and give yourself a 33MHz version?
Also, no you can't (reliably) use the PCMCIA unless you dump the 8MB simm and use 4MB instead, due to conflicts in the address range.
Good to post in the same thread as you again, Agafaster.
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@monami
Was it a 1260 of some sort?
They sent me a dud one as well.
It took months of waiting first to get a replacement and then to get my money back when I'd had enoug of waiting.
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If you give them £130 for an Atari monitor, do you not get one because monitors are not included?
http://www.analogic.co.uk/Atari_Computer&Monitors.html
Actually, it looks like they put the wrong description underneath the monitor part, as it says Atari STE in the monitor description.
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Was it a 1260 of some sort?
They sent me a dud one as well.
It took months of waiting first to get a replacement and then to get my money back when I'd had enoug of waiting.
no not quite so speedy/ pricey. it was probably when buisness was up and they thought it was ok to treat the customer this way. it was a lowly 68030 based card. for £25 i think i sould have had a signed video of him restocking his shelf. but then it would have took all of 3 seconds. how much would that be an hour? i'll get me a job like that! :lol:
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Just to say that I have actually got a (Or more accurately now 9/10ths) of a A4000 mobo that was given to me duff, with a Analogic sticker on the board. I think I also have a floppy drive in a A1200 somewhere that was originially bought from Analogic.
Hey, there's also a buisness card somewhere for them...From the C= PET days...
I've never actually dealt with them directly.
PS. 9/10ths of a board since 1/10th (The CPU connector) has been sawn off and sent to "Chain" in the Czech Republic :-)
Hodgkinson.