Software hut has advertised new GVP accelerators

[save2600]

I too was surprised to see the ZII/ZIII video card AND an A2000 fast card. WOW! Talk about support. NEW & desirable products for such a cool platform and one that is 22+ years old no less!!

Take that Atari, Mac, PeeCee, etc.!!   :-D

[save2600]

Somebody mentioned that Joe/Softhut hasn't actually received them yet. 10 days the post said. I'd buy this stuff from Joe with confidence. Even when I had a problem with my GVP ram, he quickly responded and took care of it. Looks like the first few from A.org that ordered will be reviewing this stuff! Wouldn't that suck to have missed out on a 4060 in the meantime?   :madashell:

Seriously, it would be interesting to know how many of each item have been produced...

[save2600]

I did not have a Warp Engine (supposed to be tip-top) in my A4000 as I had the standard Commodore 040/25mhz, but I do remember comparing *that* to a Phase 5 MKII 060 board I had. And umm.... yeah, the difference in browsing was very noticeable (I'd say it seemed at least 3x-4x as quick). Web browsing was a lot more tolerable and as I've said in the past, even on my A2500 spec'd below, an 060 does much to bring the legacy platform to VERY enjoyable surfing/computing levels. Often times as fast, if not faster than my 2.1ghz G5 (all things not being equal there, but you get the point).

I've had a 28mhz 040 in my A2500 before and was not terribly impressed departing from a 25mhz 030. The 060 will make your machine screeeam!


Linky to some info about basic speed comparisons, etc

Another linky to interesting 4060, etc. stuff

[save2600]

If it were too good to be true, I suspect that the prices would have been much more down to earth. I also wouldn't be surprised if the orders are actually funding the production & assembly of these.

[save2600]

@new2amga:

Didn't mean to imply the literal interpretation that cold hard cash was needed or taken in advance to "fund", but preorders seemed to have been necessary for sure. Whether Joe/GVP worded it that way or not. More of a true commitment to purchase... would be prudent in these times for sure. Not knocking, just hypothesising that, besides getting SIMMS to work, could be part of the answer here.

And yes - Joe is indeed a great guy. I'd never confuse any practice of his with a dubious nature. Never had, nor ever heard of a problem with Softhut other than communication at times and lack of website updating.