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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: fondpondforever on May 08, 2017, 02:41:36 AM

Title: Is this the card you would need to run AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition on an Amiga 1200?
Post by: fondpondforever on May 08, 2017, 02:41:36 AM

Is this the card you would need to run AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition Classic on an Amiga 1200?

Blizzard 1200/4

http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/blizzard1200 (http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/blizzard1200)

Title: Re: Is this the card you would need to run AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition on an Amiga 1200
Post by: QuikSanz on May 08, 2017, 02:51:50 AM

without a PPC on board? no.

Title: Re: Is this the card you would need to run AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition on an Amiga 1200
Post by: eliyahu on May 08, 2017, 02:59:27 AM

@fondpondforever

you'll need a blizzard ppc (http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/blizzardppc). and they tend to be fairly rare these days.

-- eliyahu

Title: Re: Is this the card you would need to run AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition on an Amiga 1200
Post by: Oldsmobile_Mike on May 08, 2017, 06:06:30 AM

4.1 for classics requires a PowerPC accelerator card.

Google can tell you the system requirements, or you can read them here: http://amigakit.leamancomputing.com/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=47&products_id=1222

Title: Re: Is this the card you would need to run AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition on an Amiga 1200
Post by: agami on May 09, 2017, 04:07:22 AM

That card won't even let you run OS 3.9
The card you'll need, but should in all honesty not bother with, is the Blizzard PPC. One recently sold on Ebay for a little over US$1,000 http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/292095658735?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT (http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/292095658735?_trksid=p2060353.m1438.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT)
It did have the companion BVision card which is another thing you'll want for OS 4.1 for Classic.
And it pretty much requires a towered A1200.

Title: Re: Is this the card you would need to run AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition on an Amiga 1200
Post by: outrun1978 on May 09, 2017, 07:07:16 AM

or buy yourself an X5000, after all once you have paid top dollar on Ebay for the rare Power PC accelerator plus the other bits and pieces you are then going to want to add on to the A1200 like a Tower,  USB ports, Indivision DVI card, Elbox Mediator PCI slots etc for a  graphics card etc  The X5000 works out less ;-)

Title: Re: Is this the card you would need to run AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition on an Amiga 1200
Post by: orange on May 09, 2017, 07:31:20 AM

I'd say forget it, those things are much more expensive than Blizzard 1200/4.
you can emulate ppc now with UAE.

Title: Re: Is this the card you would need to run AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition on an Amiga 1200
Post by: Iggy on May 09, 2017, 01:36:02 PM

Quote from: orange;825549

I'd say forget it, those things are much more expensive than Blizzard 1200/4.
you can emulate ppc now with UAE.

IF you want to emulate an A1200 with a PPC card on your PC, which always seemed like a weird way to downgrade your hardware to me.

I'd buy the X5000 too. I would greatly outperform the real or emulated PPC equipped A1200 in NG apps.

Otherwise...stick with Windows, MacOS, Linux.

Title: Re: Is this the card you would need to run AmigaOS 4.1 Final Edition on an Amiga 1200
Post by: goldfish on May 09, 2017, 11:14:26 PM

http://amiga.resource.cx/exp/blizzardppc

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