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New Amiga Accelerators
« on: June 05, 2008, 05:16:55 PM »
I am discussing with a friend of mine about possibly re-producing some of these long-out-of-production PPC/68k accelerator cards.

Several pics were pulled from ads, and the feasibility of re-creating these cards seemed promising..


If you have a spare PPC or 68040/68060 card for a A1200 lying around, please let me know on a pm (no ebay ads). I have cash/paypal/money order waiting.
 

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Re: New Amiga Accelerators
« Reply #1 on: June 05, 2008, 08:07:45 PM »
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Without the CPLD data your plan is damned.

You don't even know what a CPLD is? Twice so.


Fortunately, I'm not doing the legwork. I am looking for a 040 card to give to the guy, who will dissect the card and build a new one, along with getting the other chips re-created.

And no...I dont know/care about what CPLD is.

I'll stop here.
 

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Re: New Amiga Accelerators
« Reply #2 on: June 05, 2008, 08:24:04 PM »
All I need to know is this:

If an 040 accelerator came out for lets say--the A1200 @ $300 per unit, would there be a market for them?

The same for an 060 model?

The rest is possible--the rest will happen provided there is some interest (more than 50 people ) in this. Several people have been contacted regarding getting the chips copied, boards scanned, etc.

I'm sharing details, I just want to know if this could happen if the price was around $300......for an 040 or 060 accelerator.
 

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Re: New Amiga Accelerators
« Reply #3 on: June 05, 2008, 08:51:46 PM »
I'm in talks with several overseas people about this.

As long as I get between 50-60 people who will buy an accelerator **FOR THE A1200**, I can begin talking to my people.

No doubt there **WILL*** be a A4000 accelerator--I just figured we would need to start with something readily available--the A1200.

Stay Tuned...this should be real intresting.


I'm in the market for a **working** 060 accelerator and/or a PPC accelerator (i'm indeed starting with the A1200). pm me.




 

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Re: New Amiga Accelerators
« Reply #4 on: June 06, 2008, 01:40:15 AM »
LOL.

This is great stuff, very entertaining.

I'll keep ya posted ;)
 

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Re: New Amiga Accelerators
« Reply #5 on: June 06, 2008, 11:27:11 PM »
The whole idea is that he's dreaming--IE like "i am"

He's dreaming of 4GB modules, like I'm 'dreaming' of new accelerator cards
 

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Re: New Amiga Accelerators
« Reply #6 on: June 12, 2008, 03:33:19 PM »
Yeah that would be nice...

 

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Re: New Amiga Accelerators
« Reply #7 on: June 12, 2008, 06:24:30 PM »
BTW= the whole XP memory limit isn't because of the OS itself.

Its because 32-bit systems can only address 4GB of RAM total, including video memory. Has nothing to do with Bill Gates or his antics.

3.75GB RAM+256M video card = 4GB

etc etc.

as laughable as the above comments are, this one really stuck out. Why would MS of all people put some arbitrary limit on memory?