Software hut has advertised new GVP accelerators

[Matt_H]

I'm a bit surprised to see the Spectrum card listed. Still, a new supply of ZorroII/III RTG graphics cards is nothing to scoff at.

[Matt_H]

Darrin wrote:

I'm not familiar with the Spectrum card, but anything that will allow a modern screen resolution for websurfing is a must.  There's no point in upgrading your A2000 with a 68060 and a Deneb so you can try and surf the Internet in an ECS 4 colour super high-res interlaced flickering screen.  

Definitely.

I never had a Spectrum. I think it was one of the earlier Amiga graphics cards and was kind of forgotten about when RTG mania hit in the late 90s.

It looks quite capable, though - ZorroIII and a built-in monitor switcher are excellent features. I'm very tempted to get one for one of my secondary machines.

[Matt_H]

Darrin wrote:

I see that nobody has dared to mention RoHS which might explain why a North America based company is selling them.

Amiga-news.de did: "These products probably will be not delivered to Europe because it is a remake of old developments which do not square with the RoHS-directive."

I imagine that means there'll be no European distributor, but I don't see what would stop European users from ordering directly from Softhut...

For the most part, I think RoHS is a great thing, since so much commodity PC hardware ends up in the garbage. As far as Amiga stuff, though, I'm kinda glad the US isn't enforcing it. The odds of Amiga stuff, especially new gear like this, ending up in a landfill are (I hope) very, very small.

[Matt_H]

Splurge wrote:

x56h34 wrote:
I'm tempted to pick up a 4060DT. I doubt it would fit in my A3000T though.

If it did fit, I'd probably get one.

Probably not something you'd want to do to brand new hardware, but you could try the ol' WarpEngine trick and rip out the vertical SIMM sockets and replace them with 2 angled ones.

[Matt_H]

Info update:

April 24, 2009 Update - Software Hut and GVP have teamed to bring back many popular GVP products for the Amiga at new, lower prices. These are newly made production pieces with a full 1 year warranty. Many of the items are limited production so hurry as they will sell out fast. Our first batch of ram both 4mb and 16mb simms has arrived today and A2000 and A4000 accelerators are due in stock on Monday. A1200 accelerators should be the end of next week and the Spectrum boards should be in around May 5th.