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Title: best post commodore piece of hardware?
Post by: runequester on February 04, 2011, 12:01:29 AM

What are the best pieces of hardware and kit for classic amiga's since 1994?

Title: Re: best post commodore piece of hardware?
Post by: Franko on February 04, 2011, 12:08:45 AM

Easy... :)

The SubWay USB Device
The FastATA MKII ATAPI/IDE 4 Way Buffered Interface
The Cocolino Mouse Adapter (especially for wireless mice)

Title: Re: best post commodore piece of hardware?
Post by: Digiman on February 04, 2011, 12:43:42 AM

The top of the line PPC/BVISION cards that let you play Wipeout 2097 like a Playstation on a humble looking A1200.

Title: Re: best post commodore piece of hardware?
Post by: gazgod on February 04, 2011, 01:17:47 AM

Without a doubt the Deneb is my number one.

Title: Re: best post commodore piece of hardware?
Post by: Dragster on February 04, 2011, 01:18:15 AM

It has to be the Cyberstormppc and the BlizzardPPC accelerator boards... they gave new life to the Classic platform for a while & introduced the fastest SCSI controller for the classic (UWSCSI)... and technically speaking, they are awesome... this vote include the BlizzardVision and CybervisionPPC boards...
 
Cheers,
 
Dragster
 
Edit: 2nd on my list it has to be the Highway/Algor/Deneb USB boards fom E3B.. great quality, neat USB solution...

Title: Re: best post commodore piece of hardware?
Post by: KThunder on February 04, 2011, 01:43:26 AM

Minimig

Minimig took us all by suprise and I think it really is one of the brightest spots in the amiga community right now, as far as hardware anyway. An actually real, independantly developed, almost completely compatible a500 clone.

Freaking cool.

Title: Re: best post commodore piece of hardware?
Post by: stefcep2 on February 04, 2011, 02:32:07 AM

My Cyberstorm 2 and CV 64 combo.  Meant my amiga ws my only computer for a decade longer than I otherwise would have.  The only way to run Wordworth , Pagestream, ImageFX, Photogenics, Cinema 4D the way they are meant to be run. Rock solid reliability.  And speed.  With CGX 4.  And now that I have an Indivision and an LCD monitor its the perfect Amiga for me.

Title: Re: best post commodore piece of hardware?
Post by: dannyp1 on February 04, 2011, 03:00:16 AM

Picasso IV.  Nothing else can touch it.

Title: Re: best post commodore piece of hardware?
Post by: NovaCoder on February 04, 2011, 03:57:57 AM

My fav's are all for my fav classic the A1200:

Micromys (http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=877)

ACA 1230/56 Accelerator (http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=43&products_id=1013)

And of course the Indivision AGA Mk2 (when it's released of course!)

:)

Title: Re: best post commodore piece of hardware?
Post by: B00tDisk on February 04, 2011, 04:13:05 AM

Clockport USB boards would have to be number one.  Thumb drives, external media, network, mouse, keyboard, printers, scanners, sound "cards" - and that's all on the humble Amiga!

Number two?  Indivision - cheap SD/FFs?  Lifesaver for many.

Number three?  Hm.  The ACA series of accelerator cards from Jens.  I hear there's 2000 and 500 versions in the works.

Number four?  MiniMig!  And hopefully MiniMig AGA.

Title: Re: best post commodore piece of hardware?
Post by: x56h34 on February 04, 2011, 05:11:48 AM

It has to be the PPC cards. :D
If I had to pick only one, then CSPPC for sure. :)

Title: Re: best post commodore piece of hardware?
Post by: smerf on February 04, 2011, 05:41:24 AM

Quote from: runequester;612283

What are the best pieces of hardware and kit for classic amiga's since 1994?

Hi,

No matter what the rest of these crazy Amiga people and Scotts say it has to be a high powered power supply, because without it you can't run anything with that stupid Amiga brick, or orig supply in the A4000.

smerf

Title: Re: best post commodore piece of hardware?
Post by: lumby on February 04, 2011, 10:07:02 AM

Hi all

Mediator PCI 4000Di

Title: Re: best post commodore piece of hardware?
Post by: AmigaNG on February 04, 2011, 10:15:00 AM

the CD-Rom, ok so the CD-Rom drive was kind of around just when Commodore when bust and there is a bit of support for it in 3.1, and so of course their is the cdtv and cd32 but no official Cd-Rom drive for A4000 or A1200 machine and I for one dont think Amiga in the desktop line could of survived with out the Cd-Rom drive, so I say thanks to all the companies that made it happen.

Title: Re: best post commodore piece of hardware?
Post by: r06ue1 on February 04, 2011, 12:40:45 PM

I would have to go with Indivision AGA/ECS.

Title: Re: best post commodore piece of hardware?
Post by: spihunter on February 04, 2011, 01:08:21 PM

Picasso IV with a concerito sound add-on was the coolest Amiga hardware I ever owned. My A4000 was a like a whole new computer with that in it.

Title: Re: best post commodore piece of hardware?
Post by: B00tDisk on February 04, 2011, 04:49:52 PM

Quote from: x56h34;612342

It has to be the PPC cards. :D
If I had to pick only one, then CSPPC for sure. :)

Nah.  They cost too much when new, the price only got worse, they're as fragile as eggshells, and they were limited to some of the worst-selling Amiga models ever (4000/1200).

I'd take a tricked out A2000 (yes, I know 120mhz "developer" PPC cards were released for the 2000, but what of it?  There were five, maybe six?  A dozen?) or desktop 1200 with all of the addons I mentioned before the PPC card.

Although I'd gladly sell the PPC card for more $ for addons! :D

Title: Re: best post commodore piece of hardware?
Post by: redrumloa on February 04, 2011, 05:42:55 PM

Quote from: runequester;612283

best post commodore piece of hardware?

CMD SuperCPU 128
 
Oh wait, you said for Amiga. Oops:lol:

Title: Re: best post commodore piece of hardware?
Post by: Buzzfuzz on February 04, 2011, 06:00:23 PM

Although I would say Cyberstorm PPC, I would rather chose the Blizzard 2060.
I got one recently and I have to say, WOW! :)
This speeds up an Amiga 2000 to the point you think, damn this thing is fast :roflmao:
 
Also having the Cyberstorm PPC I agree these are fragile and extremely expensive.