ACA 1232 Accelerator with 128MB RAM

[ChaosLord]

This is the 10th time I have gone to Amigakit to look at the busspeed test to see if someone should buy the card or not.  But every time I  go there, the busspeed test mysteriously does not work.  So I just assume there is a problem with the card that they don't want you to know about.  Sorry.

If you find someone who has the card and will do a bustest then I will give u a new opinion.

[ChaosLord]

Could someone with an ACA1232 and/or other related accelerator please run Bustest and copy/paste the text here for me to look at?  Thanx!

And you must state the exact video mode that your Amiga was in when you ran the test, in order for the test to be valid.  And tell us the Mhz of your ACA card.

If the ACA is as awesome as Jens says it is then it should produce really outstanding bustest results, but I will wait and see.


p.s. I have run Blizzard 060 50Mhz and Apollo 060 50Mhz in 2 A1200s and never needed any "timing fixes".  I never even heard of "timing fixes" before the ACA cards came out.

[ChaosLord]

A 1D4 A1200 motherboard WILL require a fix. See below link for information and instructions:

http://www.ianstedman.co.uk/Amiga/amiga_hacks/A1200_Mobo_fix/a1200_mobo_fix.html

My ACA seemingly worked fine on my rev.2B A1200 without the fix. But with WHDLoad on some games I had freezing problems, or graphics corruption. Like Breathless would freeze after 2 minutes, as did AB3D after a while.
At the time I read over at eab that Mad Professor Mariarti was a good game to test whether timing fixes are needed and whether (after fixing) fixing was successful. I loaded the said game...before the fixes the graphics became trashed in the intro...so I knew I needed fixes. I performed the fix and hey presto...no graphics corruption, and no more freezing either on those other games I mentioned.

As for the timing fixes with non ACA cards, the problem is not a new one and not unique to the ACA series. Not all A1200 motherboard revisions require the fix, so that's why a lot of people never needed the fix to begin with (back in the 90's for example). AFAIK it's only the 1D4 and 2B motherboard revisions that require these fixes, and yes, even non ACA cards (not ram expansions) will require the fix as well in order to work correctly.

Most informative message I have read all day.  I hereby award you
Amiga Science Merit Badge

For service above and beyond the call of duty. :idea: