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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: mingle on November 25, 2008, 03:22:46 AM
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Hi,
I'm after an 030 accelerator card for my A1200. Preferably a blizzard 50MHz, with SCSI..
What would be a reasonable price for one, these days?
Which are the best/most trouble-free makes/models?
Cheers,
Mike.
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Blizzard MKIV and GVP (later version) are two good choices. The GVP uses proprietary RAM, but is otherwise an awesome card. Both have a DMA SCSI option. Also, both are pretty easily found... the GVP pops up on US ebay frequently.
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mingle wrote:
Hi,
I'm after an 030 accelerator card for my A1200. Preferably a blizzard 50MHz, with SCSI..
What would be a reasonable price for one, these days?
Which are the best/most trouble-free makes/models?
Cheers,
Mike.
Blizz 030 Mk4 is the one to go for although you should be ok with most 030 cards.
Blizz 030's can go to AU $300+ if they include a FPU and memory. I haven't seen one go for less than $200, even for the bare card :(
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Most cards made by Phase 5 are good. I think there was a Blizzard Mark 5 50 mhz 68030 and I'd be gunning for that. GVP also makes good cards but I think you need to use their own RAM which can be hard to find and expensive. What happened to your Cobra 030?
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I sold the Cobra - it was working fine, but the annoying warm-boot issue was really giving me the irrates!
After a bit of reading up, it seems that it was a known issue (have to do several CRTL-AMIGA-AMIGA pressed to get it to restart).
So, I'm after a replacement. I'm not interested in an 040 (to hot for my desktop A1200), it's either 030 or 060 - although knowing the rarity & price of the latter, I know what I'm going to be getting! :-)
I actually used to have a Blizzard 1260 - bought it new in 1998, but sold it (for a mere $AU 250) back in 2000...
Cheers,
Mike.