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Offline Amiga_Nut

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Re: Amiga 2000 upgrade
« on: February 04, 2011, 01:21:19 PM »
You need a Blizzard/Cyberstorm PowerPC upgrade processor accelerator card and a 24bit graphics card or the video card daughter board for those two accelerators mentioned to play something as lowly as DVDrips of TV shows floating round the internet. This is the bare minimum quality you should aim for if you want it to be useful. Mpeg1 is DEAD.

Budget about £900-1200 for just those two components. Not cheap at all.
 

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Re: Amiga 2000 upgrade
« Reply #1 on: February 04, 2011, 01:41:37 PM »
Quote from: tone007;612392
Of course, neither PPC card is/was available for the A2000.  Best you can get is an '060 board, which won't do much good for video at all.

Ahh OK I thought there was a PPC card for the 2000 launched, maybe it never got off prototype stage and I am thinking Cyberstorm 060.

Could have sworn I saw one on ebay but maybe it was someone just trying for 900 bucks for the 060 card.

edit: In which case budget for an A4000/030 as well approx 200-300 bucks :)