Building the A4000 commencing

[irishmike]

Hello All:

As most of the regulars here know, I am embarking on building up my A4000 system.

Still need some parts, if you can help please PMAIL me, and I will go over the list with you.



Anyhow, looking to the processor card.  Testing of the Mainboards I have has gone very well and I have actually ordered the 3.1 ROMs for the A4000 from Amigakit!  We tested the mainboards with a borrowed A3640 Processor board... it belongs to a friend of mine and he is NOT willing to sell it!

Anyhow, was looking into this and came upon a refurbished Cyberstorm MK II 060 accelerator at Amigakit.  Is this a good choice for accelerator board?  It is pricey, but this is a key choice for the system ;-).  My dream is to find a Warp Engine for it!

Really just wondering about the Cyberstorm card.

The other real challenge is the graphics card... obviously they are out there.  But I think those two are most expensive of the parts!

Plus would like advice on the case, I have an incomplete case, but I am considering building my own for it using an ATX power supply.  It looks real straight forward to build an adapter for the A4000 and naturally, it will be better in the long run over the stock 175 Watt-er that is standard in the desktop case.

Hope someone can help me find the other parts I need as well!

Thanks all,

Mike

[irishmike]

@flashlab

Worth $391 USD?  I figured it would run about $400 for the Warp Engine anyhow :-)


Have you had any glitches running it?

Thanks man,

Mike

[irishmike]

@llwrath

This was at Amigakit, I assume he has more than one since he advertises it as in stock ;-)  So you wouldn't be buying it out from under me :-)

Here is the

link

@Everyone

Wow, price went up to $459 USD -- that puts it (for right now) out of my price range.

EDIT:  That is weird, the price keeps fluctuating on me.  Looked at the page again just now and the price was back at $391 USD... weird translation from Pounds to Dollars maybe?  It is £211 BP and that doesn't seem to change.

[irishmike]

Also could still use leads on the following parts:

A4000 Keyboard
880K Amiga Floppy Drive
A3640 Processor Card (most likely)
A good video card for the A4000 (Zorro II or III)

Also, looking for the Octal/Line buffer chip 74FCT244T 20 pin DIP that goes in U103 on the Rev B. Board.  So if anyone has a battery damaged or dead Rev B.  I would be interested in obtaining two of these chips.

Thanks,

Mike

[irishmike]

@amigakit

Thanks for clearing that up.  It was a bit of a shock to me, but I figured it was in the translation to USD somehow because the £211 never changed :-)

I will be ordering these things as funds allow.


@everyone

Could really use the real A4000 keyboard for sure and of course the chips I mentioned earlier ;-)