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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Marketplace => Topic started by: murple on March 17, 2009, 03:07:40 PM
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Got one of these (http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Amiga-128MB-Memory-for-blizzard-turboboards_W0QQitemZ250380014610QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_146?hash=item250380014610&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1683%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318) for my Blizzard accelerator. In spite of the seller's insistence that it'll fit if you wrap a bunch of rubber bands around it and contort your Amiga in various ways, as far as I can tell the only ways to make it fit is with a hammer or by ripping out the CPU.
Should work in other things that take 128MB 72 pin SIMMs. You're welcome to try it on a Blizzard, but if it trashes your computer... I told you not to do it.
Cost me 19 euros plus a few dollars shipping, which is a rip off. Similar if not identical one is being sold here (http://asb-computer.com/shop/index.php?cPath=27_7&osCsid=88d4b924fd0dd216750204ca4814f58c) for an absolutely insane 78 euros.
I'm tempted to make it into a keychain, but I don't need a keychain. I'm also tempted to smash it with a hammer while shouting curses at the ebay sellers name. Or... you can buy it for $15 if you're in the US, or $20 if you're in another country. Shipping is included in both prices.
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im using the same simm's for over 2 years now on my blizzard
from the same guy and never had any problems with it
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IIRC you cant use this SIMM in a desktop A1200 without lifting the A1200 a few millimeters and leaving the trapdoor cover off....
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yeah u have to leave the trapdoor away and fit small rubber strips under the case
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Uhh, no. It won't go in the accelerator when the accelerator isn't even in the Amiga. The CPU is in the way.
I don't want it. If you do, let me know in the next day or two, otherwise I will put it to bad use.
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murple wrote:
>>> Should work in other things that take 128MB 72 pin SIMMs.
Anybody know if these work in Apollo 060 accelerators for the 1200?
>>> Cost me 19 euros plus a few dollars shipping,
That may be the problem right there - aren't euros cursed, or I may be reading too many British sites.
>>> I'm tempted to make it into a keychain, but I don't need >>> a keychain. I'm also tempted to smash it with a hammer >>> while shouting curses at the ebay sellers name.
Aw, come on, you're in the Commonwealth! (For those across the pond, Virginia is not a U.S. state) Throw it in the air, blast it with a shotgun, then pick the chips off with a rifle before it hits the ground, like T. Jefferson did!
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If the Apollo takes 72 pin SIMMs like PCs used to use in the mid 90s, and the socket is at a good angle to fit a double sided SIMM that is a little over an inch wide, it should work. The problem with the Blizzard is that the SIMM socket is placed in a really bad angle and the CPU is in the way of a SIMM this wide.
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What revision Blizzard do you have? MKIIs can only take 64mb.... Maybe it only fits a MKIII and MKIV?
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MKIV, with a 64MB currently. Can take up to 128 (and up to 256 if you get the SCSI kit and max it out with another 128).
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I have 2 of them installed in a bppc no problems. In a tower anyway.
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hardlink wrote:
Anybody know if these work in Apollo 060 accelerators for the 1200?
Unfortunately, no. Apollo boards only take 32Mb SIMM (up to two socket/SIMM on 1260).
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Wow, an accelerator that takes a 68060 can't take more than 32Mb? That seems strange and underpowered. Weren't 128Mb SIMMs pretty easy to get at the time that '060 accelerators were coming out new?
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Yes but they were so expensive no one could afford them back then.
If you solder another 72-pin socket you can attach 64 MB to the Apollo, but then you would have to run a tower.
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Dont buy chips like these "blizzard compatible" if they dont have the word blizzard or amiga in the name they are ten times cheaper .. The seller bought a LOT and sells them at an extreme price. I bought a Lot and sold each stick for about 2£ more than i payed for each . I have also had many different sticks some are not good for the blizzards others are..
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Why would anyone need more than 64mb with an amiga anyways ? Asuming they are not running os4 classic or morph ...
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Why would anyone need more than 64mb with an amiga anyways ?
I have 64MB in my Amiga 1200, running OS3.1, and I've run into a few demos which crap out saying I don't have enough RAM. So... there's some things that need more.
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I'm still looking for 128MB SIMMs for my 1260 as well.
As for why anyone needs more than 64MB... Hmmm, Lightwave, scanning at decent resolutions, editing said pictures in ImageFX, etc...
I have a scene from LightROM 3 that needs >64MB just to load!
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Just my 2 cents,
I got 196Mb in my 1200, one of the big 128mb on the SCSI module that fit well under the keyboard, and a very slim 64mb single sided of Kingston memory on the blizzard (I never find the equivalent 128mb version...)
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amazing wrote:
im using the same simm's for over 2 years now on my blizzard
from the same guy and never had any problems with it
Thanks You amazing !!
I rest my case
P.S Thank you Murple for giving me bad feedback without contacting me first good job (not).
A have sold more then 100+ off this modules without any problem.
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Because wizbag annoyed me, this SIMM is now $5 to anyone in the US and $10 to anyone elsewhere in the world... except if you're in Spijkenisse, NL, and are selling these things as fitting in an board they won't fit in. In that case it'll cost $534.92 plus postage.
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adonay wrote:
The seller bought a LOT and sells them at an extreme price. I bought a Lot and sold each stick for about 2£ more than i payed for each . I have also had many different sticks some are not good for the blizzards others are..
Yes obviously the seller is cranking the price way up. Selling 128MB for almost 20 euro in 2009 is insane. I have seen these things sold in bulk for very very cheap, and if I wanted to have 100+ SIMMs I could get them for much cheaper. I only need one though.
I think I'll be better off going to thrift stores and yard sales and finding old computers to pull the SIMM out of rather than buying from another ebay pirate.
I'd pay more for one online, if it was guaranteed to fit without breaking my accelerator or requiring stupid stuff like rubber bands. I was skeptical about it being a good purchase, I took a gamble, I got screwed. Oh well.
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murple wrote:
Because wizbag annoyed me, this SIMM is now $5 to anyone in the US and $10 to anyone elsewhere in the world... except if you're in Spijkenisse, NL, and are selling these things as fitting in an board they won't fit in. In that case it'll cost $534.92 plus postage.
Never played with LEGO ?
If you have a blizzard 1230 MKIV it's not that hard to install, not even for you.
And is not to hard to read and watch the pictures,if you don't can don't buy it.
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It's been sold to the first bidder, so... no longer available from me. You're welcome to buy the same thing at a grossly inflated price on ebay, however.
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seen answer.
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murple wrote:
Why would anyone need more than 64mb with an amiga anyways ?
I have 64MB in my Amiga 1200, running OS3.1, and I've run into a few demos which crap out saying I don't have enough RAM. So... there's some things that need more.
Are you sure they aren't talking about chipram? I've got 64mb installed in my desktop miggy which I think is the max unless you want to start mucking about with raising the case of the desk.
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Did he supply the rubber bands? :crazy:
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CaptChaos wrote:
Did he supply the rubber bands? :crazy:
The abrasive way he sounds, it seems like he expected the guy to fly across the pond and install it for him.... :roll: