Post by: nishtek on August 01, 2008, 09:13:56 AM
Why am I selling this? I have one already no need for 2nd one.
This is hard to find accelerator board. SERIOUS offers please.
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Post by: pyrre on August 01, 2008, 11:31:26 AM
Post by: bash64 on August 01, 2008, 12:23:24 PM
And if the guy above me buys it would you mind parting with the fusion forty?
:-o
Post by: BillHarrison on August 01, 2008, 01:30:24 PM
Post by: pyrre on August 01, 2008, 02:39:14 PM
The fusion is a bit buggy... i have yet to get it working...
It don't add ram by itself (as it should), and it won't run properly in 040 mode....
Post by: nishtek on August 02, 2008, 01:03:06 AM
- is 100% fully functional and comes with hard disk with "stable installation".
- it originally cost $600-700.
Softhut another dealer has it listed for
$550 plus $50 for memory.
http://www.softhut.com/cgi-bin/test/Web_store/web_store.cgi?page=catalog/hardware/accelerators/gvp_tekmagic.html&cart_id=52674
another amiga.org user asked $500 for it few weeks ago:
http://www.amiga.org/forums/showthread.php?t=37021
it compares to no card except for Blizzard 060.
I owned CBM 68030, GVP030, GVP040 for a long time and must say this is the only really fast amiga board (also the only one that makes surfing durable) besides Blizzard 060 which matches it. I would say though that Tekmagic 060 seems faster to me.
The cards worth today are as follows (as a guide):
CBM 68030 - $80-120
GVP 68030 with 16mb RAM - $120-$160
Fusion Forty 68040 - $100-$140
GVP 68040 with 16mb RAM - $170-$220
Phase5/DCE 68060 with 128 RAM - seen it at $450 to $600. key is whenever it was ever seen.
TekMagic 060 with 128 RAM
all in my/our humble opinion.
Post by: nishtek on August 02, 2008, 01:10:31 AM
Post by: bash64 on August 02, 2008, 01:21:10 AM
:-o :-o :-o
rll at insightbb dot com
Post by: bash64 on August 02, 2008, 01:25:13 AM
Post by: pyrre on August 02, 2008, 12:45:55 PM
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How much for BUGGY fusion forty?
I'm not selling just yet. Got to see if i can get it working properly first..
However...
$500 is a bit much for an aging old technology that no one can guarantee will work for the next 5 - 10 years...
I think the prices of Amiga expansion has become ridiculous...
Post by: Tahoe on August 02, 2008, 07:29:08 PM
Post by: pyrre on August 02, 2008, 07:42:17 PM
Nice amiga collection you got there.
And i see you have a great enthusiasm for sony..
Cool
You don't happen to have a sony XA7ES cd player?
Post by: nishtek on August 02, 2008, 09:25:38 PM
The TekMagic 060 is one of its kind. There isn't too many 68060 boards around. I consider this board to be the best for a2000, the Phase5/DCE is 2nd, imho.
$300 would be for gvp 68040 with 16mb gvp custom RAM.
anyway, please, do not be offended, i'll simply keep it for now. Our season for giving things away is in December - Christmas time! :-D
Post by: nishtek on August 02, 2008, 09:30:18 PM
Maximum you can go with A2000. Other Amigas take PPC cars.
Post by: nishtek on August 02, 2008, 09:36:30 PM
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pyrre wrote:QuoteHow much for BUGGY fusion forty?
I'm not selling just yet. Got to see if i can get it working properly first..
may want to uprade to latest ROMS & software.
http://www.vintagecomputercafe.com/amigafusionfortyaccelerator.htm
Post by: TheMagicM on August 02, 2008, 09:39:32 PM
Post by: pyrre on August 02, 2008, 11:29:36 PM
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may want to uprade to latest ROMS & software.
3.4 roms were already installed when i purchased it....
Post by: countzero on August 03, 2008, 12:16:48 AM
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nishtek wrote:
The cards worth today are as follows (as a guide):
CBM 68030 - $80-120
GVP 68030 with 16mb RAM - $120-$160
Fusion Forty 68040 - $100-$140
GVP 68040 with 16mb RAM - $170-$220
Phase5/DCE 68060 with 128 RAM - seen it at $450 to $600. key is whenever it was ever seen.
TekMagic 060 with 128 RAM
all in my/our humble opinion.
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nishtek wrote:
$300 would be for gvp 68040 with 16mb gvp custom RAM.
anyway, please, do not be offended, i'll simply keep it for now. Our season for giving things away is in December - Christmas time! :-D
quite a quick steep up that one !
Post by: amigadave on August 03, 2008, 07:11:55 AM
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nishtek wrote:
Not really considering this aging technology, especially the other TekMagic 060 board i use regularly has been running ok for the last 10 years.
The TekMagic 060 is one of its kind. There isn't too many 68060 boards around. I consider this board to be the best for a2000, the Phase5/DCE is 2nd, imho.
$300 would be for gvp 68040 with 16mb gvp custom RAM.
anyway, please, do not be offended, i'll simply keep it for now. Our season for giving things away is in December - Christmas time! :-D
First, I think if you are asking $500 US dollars that it is a very fair selling price. Of course I am prejudiced because I own two of these cards myself and agree they are great accelerators for the A2000. But in my opinion, they are not the best ever made for the A2000, so I disagree with you there. There was one board that I consider better. It was called the DKB Wildfire and had an 060/50MHz, 128mb RAM possible AND it had an onboard NIC and local PCI bus connection/connector. You can see it here (http://www.amiga-hardware.com/), under A2000 accelerators.
Post by: nishtek on August 03, 2008, 07:36:33 AM
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there. There was one board that I consider better. It was called the DKB Wildfire and had an 060/50MHz, 128mb RAM possible AND it had an onboard NIC and local PCI bus connection/connector. You can see it here (http://www.amiga-hardware.com/), under A2000 accelerators.
Thanks. I think you may be right about it. I looked over the specs, and they seem impressive. The SCSI-2 speed matches the TekMagic060, but the Wildfire has the ethernet on board. Tough to beat that RJ45 plug, when we all pay extra for ethernet zorro2 cards. In all the years with amiga, I never had the opportunity to work with the Wildfire.
Post by: nishtek on August 03, 2008, 07:39:52 AM
Post by: zipper on August 03, 2008, 11:08:36 AM
Post by: Robert17 on August 03, 2008, 11:16:55 AM
The Tekmagic is a great card if you've got the right revision motherboard though :-) I have my boot partition using FFS with Directory cache, and all others are SFS, works fine.
Robert
Post by: nishtek on August 10, 2008, 07:17:14 AM
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Robert17 wrote:
When I first got my Tekmagic I had trouble finding an A2000 motherboard revision it would work with. Also, the Temagic
The Tekmagic is a great card if you've got the right revision motherboard though :-)
Robert
Yep, some A2000 have bus noise which TekMagic won't like.
Dunno about problems finding the right mobo, but all 4 of my A2000 revision 6.2 motherboards "like" the TekMagic. It could be luck or hardware usually likes me ;-)