CS MKIII Card Crapping Out Again..

[alexh]

Provide a photograph?

The usual failure on these cards is the 68060 socket which is not soldered through the card, but just to the surface.

Expansion of the plastic when the CPU gets hot can make a failing card worse.

You could try to use a cooler MC68060RC50 version 6 (Mask E41J).

If you send it to JB, first thing he's just going to do is reflow the solder on the socket.

[alexh]

You might pay $500 but no one else would.

It's only a matter of time before someone makes a MegaMig :-)

[alexh]

matthey wrote:
How long will we have to wait? (for MegaMig)

For the specification you have listed, probably forever.

The specification for MiniMig is too low (A500) for it to be of enthusiast interest and too expensive for non enthusiasts.

A small re-design with a 100MHz 68060 and 128Mbytes SDRAM, AGA capable video circuitry, maybe a slightly larger FPGA. That would make it an Amiga enthusiast product, every Amiga user would want one. You'd sell enough to cover costs and make a small profit.

But we are straying off topic.

matthey wrote:
An accelerator is a much simpler project that should be able to be done quickly and fairly inexpensively.

Bollox. The motherboard->Accelerator connectors alone will cost at least £1000 as there will be a 500 or 1000 minimum order.

There is no real market for a new Amiga accelerator, there are not enough users and too many existing accelerators.

[alexh]

I couldnt make a profit on $350 without the sale of say more than 500 units. I wouldnt be able to sell that many I am sure. Plus the sudden availability will push the prices of all accelerators down.

[alexh]

matthey wrote:
Atari has a newer accelerator for 190 Euros...

A) It's not onsale anymore.
B) It was the only Atari 060 accelerator so had 100% market share.
C) The last run was over €300 ($450) with CPU!
D) It didnt need an expensive custom motherboard connector.

Are you saying that an Amiga accelerator can't approach that price? I think a modern 68k Amiga accelerator with more modern memory expansion selling in the 200-300 Euro range with a 1 year warranty would sell like hot cakes.

You are DREAMING. There just isnt enough A3k/A4k Amiga users out there who dont already have a reasonable accelerator.

Individual Computing, ACK, Elbox, they are not stupid. If there was a market they would have made something.