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Re: CS MKIII Card Crapping Out Again..
« on: November 18, 2007, 11:11:10 PM »
Shipping was only $10.50 USPS for me. I would know. I picked up a used broken card and sent it in for repair which was fixed and then it stopped working again a little less than 3 months later and when I sent it back it's not repairable. The CPU works but not the ram and of course the card won't boot without ram. These are great cards when they work.

I wish Elbox or somebody would make a simplified accelerator with socket for '040 or '060 with jumpers for either, a fpga to reduce the size (to easily fit in 3000) and improve reliability, better faster newer ram support, and possibly a 68 pin SCSI interface if it didn't add too much cost. I'd pay $500 easy for one if it came with at least a 1 year warranty. With all the money and time spent on Minimig, it doesn't help the severe shortage of "fast" bigbox Amiga accelerators. I have plenty of "slow" ECS machines for crying out loud! Would anybody else be interested in approaching a manufacturer to make some accelerators for us even if we have to prepay? If the AmigaOS4 thing gets worked out I'd still want a 68k accelerator and keep a classic Amiga or 2 around. I'd buy the newer PowerPC AmigaOS4 machine also.
 

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Re: CS MKIII Card Crapping Out Again..
« Reply #1 on: November 19, 2007, 12:48:03 AM »
@alexh

I'd love to have a MegaMig motherboard with AGA, PCI, 68060, flickerfixer/scandoubler and fits in a standard tower using a standard power supply. The same problem exists as AmigaOS4 though. How long will we have to wait? An accelerator is a much simpler project that should be able to be done quickly and fairly inexpensively.
 

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Re: CS MKIII Card Crapping Out Again..
« Reply #2 on: November 20, 2007, 12:39:42 AM »
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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.


I've seen a 28MHz 68040 Warpengine sell for $500 on E-bay and the least I've seen one sell for is $350 (recently). The Cyberstorm 68060 boards usually go for $400-$700. No warranty most of the time and this thread is all about the lack of reliability of the Cyberstorm Mk3/Cyberstorm PPC. Atari has a newer accelerator for 190 Euros...

http://www.czuba-tech.com/CT60/english/prices.htm

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.
 

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Re: CS MKIII Card Crapping Out Again..
« Reply #3 on: November 20, 2007, 05:35:42 AM »
I'd buy 2 or 3 accelerators at $350.

Did you notice the Atari accelerator uses PC-133 SDRAM and has 1MB of flash ROM all for 190 Euros? The demand for a newer Amiga 68k accelerator has to be bigger than for the Atari. We could contact this guy in France about making an Amiga accelerator if there was enough interest. Anybody else interested? Take a look around this guys web pages (kool stuff)...

http://www.czuba-tech.com/
http://www.czuba-tech.com/CT60/english/welcome.htm