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Offline Amigaz

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Re: Ultimate A500?
« on: March 08, 2006, 08:05:10 PM »
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i'd like to see an A500 with a PP&S 040 card and one of the powerup PPC dev boards  :-D

i guess a hard disk and KS3.1 would be a requirement too  ;-)


Yeah, PPS 040 board would be fun to see in action
I wonder how many that were sold  :roll:
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Re: Ultimate A500?
« Reply #1 on: March 08, 2006, 09:03:35 PM »
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Yeah, PPS 040 board would be fun to see in action


You mean "smell in action". From what I've heard, the 040 gets very hot and the A500 case is pretty tight. "mmmmm.....burning plastic" ;-)

Does anybody out there have an 040 in the original A1200 case? Is a fan needed? (I'm not a fan of fans)


hehe, yeah..I guess the A500 case would get warped by the heat which almost happened to my A600 which I had an Mtec 630 in before I added a cooling fan to the case to draw out the hot air and a heatsink on the '030
The PPS '040 had a cooling fan as standard but the airflow inside the A500 is quite terrible
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Re: Ultimate A500?
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2006, 09:31:51 PM »
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darksun9210 wrote:
i'd like to see an A500 with a PP&S 040 card and one of the powerup PPC dev boards  :-D
i guess a hard disk and KS3.1 would be a requirement too  ;-)


A good start but a towerized A500 goes still further, as my A500T in Micronik Classic Mini Tower:
A500 upgraded to ECS, Megachip2 giving 2 MB Chip, KS 2.05 +3.1 in switcher, Micronik busboard with 3 ZorroII slots and A2000 compatible CPU slot housing Blizzard 2060 clocked to 57 MHz, with 96 MB Fast atm. 4GB SCSI2 HD, 8x SCSI CD-Rom, Denise adapter to acquire PicassoIV flickerfixer - loaned to my A4000; CV3D and PicassoII+ cards, Eyetech flickerfixer + AutoMon switcher to CV3D, HD-floppy as DF0: And 2-4 MB extra RAM available on Oktagon 2008 depending on which RTG gard(s) sit in the tower. Mostly gathering dust nowadays...
I was so disappointed they shelved the Blizzard 2604 PPC board :-?


mmmmm..... http://web.archive.org/web/19980111014119/www.phase5.de/products/b2604e.html
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Amiga 4000 - CS MKIII
Amiga 1200 - Blizzard 1230 MKIV
Amiga 1200 - Stock
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