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Offline Buzzfuzz

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Quote from: sim085;608431
I think one of the most sought of stuff in the Amiga community are Accelerator Cards. Everyone wants an accelerator cards but few can justify such a high expense for such old hardware. Every now and then someone (including me) asks the question why we don’t have new accelerator cards. The answer is usually always the same; that is that it is not economically feasible to design and build such hardware because there is no market for it.

Yeah, I would also like to see new 060 cards, cause these cost a fortune.
Though I'm lucky to own a Cyberstorm 060/PPC 50/200 with 128MB, A Blizzard 2060/50 with 128MB, a Blizzard 1260/50 with 64MB, I'd like to have more cards, but a bit lower price than I paid for these.
This shouldn't be that hard I think, but I can't build it, I'm happy to buy them though.
 
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Hmm, those specs are pretty low (insluting is too strong word, but you get the picture) compared to ones found on ACA630.

Problem with the A500 is that simply not going to be used the way we use A1200's.
A500/A600/A2000/A3000 are still all OCS/ECS Amiga's.
 
I would already be happy with a 020 with 8MB and IDE, of course being auto configured and booted up.
 
Sure I would like a full blown 030 @ 50Mhz and 32 or 64MB with a full IDE port, so 44 pins and 40 pins.
But would we use it ?
 
If I want to WHDLoad, I'm better off with one of the A1200's.
« Last Edit: January 23, 2011, 04:53:05 PM by Buzzfuzz »
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