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Re: ACA 1230/28 Budget Accelerator Card for Amiga 1200?
« on: November 10, 2010, 04:38:44 PM »
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As always, love to see new hardware produced for the classic Amiga!  Nice price too.  I do wonder what they mean about turning your A1200 into a great retro gaming machine -- *upgrading* for retro games??  Still poor compatibility with many A500/2000 games -- or am I missing something here?


Relokick makes most games work.

The extra ram is useful for WHDload, and if you use a hard drive, AGA games tend to get annoyed if you only have 2 megs RAM total.
 

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Re: ACA 1230/28 Budget Accelerator Card for Amiga 1200?
« Reply #1 on: February 15, 2011, 04:27:37 PM »
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Just put in an order for the ACA 1230/28 on amigakit! So now I just need to get my hands on an Amiga 1200! :lol:
 
Has anyone got any experience with this card?
 
I dont really care for the cpu-upgrade, I just wanted to make sure I got enough ram when i get my Amiga 1200 so I can use whdload properly.
 
I probably should have asked here first about the easiest way to add ram to an Amiga 1200, but 100 euro is not that much money and I'm afraid these things will go out of stock.


I have the 56 version and it is a damn good card. 64 megs of RAM is basically unlimited RAM, as far as a 1200 is concerned :)
 

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Re: ACA 1230/28 Budget Accelerator Card for Amiga 1200?
« Reply #2 on: February 15, 2011, 08:13:48 PM »
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I just brought one this lunch time, probably not the best person to ask though as I don't know that much about it all! I brought a battered old amiga 1200 off ebay a while ago and have been rebuying all the games of my youth. Plus bringing a little shine back to the thing.
 
Thought I would give whdload a spin and got a hard drive full of games and this expansion card seems the most reasonable in terms of pricing to get that working.
 
But as I said, apart from some A500 gaming in the my late teens my amiga knowledge is puddle deep!

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Re: ACA 1230/28 Budget Accelerator Card for Amiga 1200?
« Reply #3 on: February 15, 2011, 10:18:43 PM »
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Thanks for the welcomes!
 
Can anyone tell me what the slight modification to the trapdoor consists of? Just a bit of plastic shaving?
yeah, the card sticks out just a tiny bit too much.
 

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Re: ACA 1230/28 Budget Accelerator Card for Amiga 1200?
« Reply #4 on: February 16, 2011, 05:14:29 AM »
I ended up leaving mine off as well. These guys dont get all that hot, but it never hurts to have some more ventilation