Software hut has advertised new GVP accelerators

[Damion]

The Blizzard wasn't the only player in the game. The GVP '030 cards of old were excellent... very well made, reliable, and compatible (heck, even my '060 GVP TekMagic works well with WHDLoad).

The downside was the proprietary RAM, also the MKIV Blizz had a better SCSI option.

However, I'm not sure what the GVP "Typhoon" is... hopefully a remake of the A1230+. Might want to wait for some more info/pics before ordering.

The Microbotics '030 card is the only one I know of that might cause problems with WHDLoad, as it (apparently) generates some random exception that crashes games and demos. I have no first hand knowledge of this though... could be an inappropriately configured card (flashrom parameters could be modified) or some other user error.

Obviously, the MKIV Blizzard was a nice card, arguably the best... but there's no reason to shy away from some of the other great cards out there.

[Damion]

amigadave wrote:

I am glad you are getting good use out of the 060 GVP TekMagic I sold you, but every time I see you mention it I wish I had kept it.  :boohoo:

Well, this might be your chance to get a new one! :-)

If I can swing it, I might pick up a 4060 for the A3K, and live with modifying a spare drive tray. I figure it's less risky than shelling out $$$ for an old MKII/III.

[Damion]

This is a bit of a dissapointment to be honest at this stage.

It usually takes a bit of trial and error setting up an expanded Amiga... with all the jumpers on the card and motherboard, different hardware configurations, etc, you'll likely have to play a bit to get things working. The original hardware is ancient and prone to failure as well.

[Damion]

Thanks for the pictures. Minus a few trivial details (like the soldered EPROM) it looks identical to the original. If they fixed the automount bug in the scsi.device, I'm getting one. Anyone want to test their card to see if it mounts PFS3 or SFS partitions? Pretty please? :-)

[Damion]

Got my 4060 today and have my SCSI HDD's ready including that 80 pin to 68/50 pin adapter ready will put the A4000 together this weekend and i will be using SFS, will let you know how i go.....

Cool, thank you! :-)