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Amiga computer related discussion => Amiga Hardware Issues and discussion => Topic started by: melott on April 07, 2004, 10:08:48 PM

Title: A1200 accellerator
Post by: melott on April 07, 2004, 10:08:48 PM

I need some help to identify this A1200 accellerator
I bought on EBay.

A tag says its a 'MagicBox Alnt. 030 cpu' The tag is
partially destroyed so that all I can read.

Its an 030 @40mhz with a socket for 68882 chip (I'm told)
And a slot for 1 72 pin simm and a place to put a disk
style battery for a battery backed clock (I think).

Anyone know anything about this unit, its not listed
on Amiga-Hardware.

Title: Re: A1200 accellerator
Post by: x56h34 on April 07, 2004, 10:14:22 PM

Post an image of it and we'll most likely know what it is, right away. ;-)

Title: Re: A1200 accellerator
Post by: Lemmink on April 07, 2004, 10:14:35 PM

You got a picture of it ?

Title: Re: A1200 accellerator
Post by: melott on April 07, 2004, 10:40:45 PM

I can do the pictures but not sure how to
upload them.

How do I do that??

Title: Re: A1200 accellerator
Post by: x56h34 on April 07, 2004, 10:43:11 PM

The best way would be to use private webspace and then simply cut & paste the link to your image. If you were to do it in the Image Gallery of this site, it would take a day or two for it to get approved and appear.

Title: Re: A1200 accellerator
Post by: CaptainHIT on April 07, 2004, 10:51:04 PM

Well, if you cannot upload to here, just put somewhere on the net and give us a link :-)

Title: Re: A1200 accellerator
Post by: melott on April 07, 2004, 11:36:05 PM

Can someone tell me how to paste a picture here ??
It looks like its done with the 'Image Manager' above
but I don't seem to be doing it right.

Title: Re: A1200 accellerator
Post by: Ilwrath on April 07, 2004, 11:49:13 PM

@melott-

I saw that card on eBay, as well, and thought about tossing in a bid on it, but decided against it.  Glad an Amiga.org'er got it.  Kind of a rare item, I think.

MagicBox is a video company who resold A1200s and CD32s boxed as turnkey infochannel packages.  The Alphagen (http://www.magicboxinc.com/support/support_alphagen.html) was a repackaged A1200, and this was an accelerator card for that machine.

My guess (and this is certainly a guess) is that it might be a re-branded DCE board.  Check the A1200 accelerators by DCE that are listed on Amiga-Hardware, and see if any of those look like it.

Title: Re: A1200 accellerator
Post by: Ryu on April 08, 2004, 01:27:11 AM

tut tut, as soon as I see a picture or whatever waiting validation I validate it. And since i spend prety much all day every day logged in here, things get validated prety rapidly, id say a few hours rather than "a day or 2" :-)

Title: Re: A1200 accellerator
Post by: melott on April 08, 2004, 03:22:36 AM

@RYU.........
Sorry.. I've never tried to load a pic into a forum
before and didn't know the procedure.....

@IIWrath

You are right.. except this card is an ELBOX 1230 MKII.
The pictures match and the discription is right on.
Should be a good card.........
Thanks much for the help

Title: Re: A1200 accellerator
Post by: Karlos on April 08, 2004, 10:49:07 AM

Quote

Ryu wrote:
tut tut, as soon as I see a picture or whatever waiting validation I validate it. And since i spend prety much all day every day logged in here, things get validated prety rapidly, id say a few hours rather than "a day or 2" :-)

Aha! But you're not logged in now are you? :-P

Title: Re: A1200 accellerator
Post by: Ryu on April 08, 2004, 01:40:34 PM

hehe, nah , I didnt get to bed till 4:30am, busy coding a project of mine so I've only just surficed and I have a headache :-(