A500/2000 accelerator cards: still unfeasible to create new ones?

[Digiman]

In the past there were plenty of cards which worked on ALL 68k based OCS Amigas A500,1000,1500,2000 that just slotted into the CPU socket.

I don't see why you can't take the A600 accelerator card and just re-jig the layout of the pins to the original 68000 CPU layout and just put the pins on the bottom and a 68000 socket on the top.

It would cost very little in design terms, and that just leaves manufacture. And if you design it properly so that it fits in the A1000 too (CPU socket is close to the side of the machine IIRC) then it's all viable.

The one's on ebay are all bollox '32bit FAST RAM daughter board not included' which makes them useless despite being 25mhz 68030 cards. Without FAST RAM you get no real speed increase so for me the issue is not cost it is effectiveness.

I would love to purchase 2 of these boards, one for my A1000 and one for my A2000. Many other people would instantly purchase such a thing.

I wouldn't purchase it for my A600 though, it's not Indivisions fault, it is Commodore's fault for making the A600 such a cheap piece of tat to use compared to the A1000/2000 I own

[Digiman]

Who says 8mb is enough, I had 10mb and ran out of memory on Dpaint 3 anims.

Who says 14mhz is enough....try rendering Digiview stuff down from 21bit RGB sources.

No $ale here sorry.

[Digiman]

The majority of peepz using Amiga is for memories, whdload and some progs.
For these things an 020 with 8MB is more than enough. Then again you can get an A1200 with a memory upgrade to even have AGA instead.
With ACA630 more and more peepz are happy with their A600's since it's the elite of the accelerators for stability and power.

If you go low on memory and use intensive programs go for an 040 or better 060. Since I saw you work on 1500/2000 why don't you try getting an Blizzard 2060 all this time?
Ye I know it's expensive, but not more than most of us have gave for an BPPC

Don't need an 060 really, just value for money and a worthwhile improvement on stock 7mhz 68k Plus 2nd hand £500 cards that can fail the next day = alarm bells ringing.

I used to recreate videos using digitizers + anim brushes....would be nice to do it again. Rest of my time will now be spent making nice games for stock OCS Amigas.....I don't use A600/500/1200 due to keyboards. A4000= waste f money for my purposes.

[Digiman]

Exactly.

If you want a souped up ECS experience then you're going to use an A2000 or A3000.

A500s are rare enough, A2000/3000 a problem to find let alone expansion cards.

Anyway best to make something better than 14mhz 020 +4mb. Too restrictive and a dead end.

[Digiman]

"A500" and "rare" in the same sentence? Now that's funny.

"rare enough",as in to find not as in worth a fortune lol. Go on ebay UK and see if there are 30-40 per week being listed a week like the old days. Didn't even see a single A500+ for sale last time I looked let alone a 2mb A500+

For people who want one and just look on ebay they have a harder job getting any Amiga than they did just 12 months ago when, including A500s which were ten a penny.

[Digiman]

Which is why less and less appear, in the old days you couldn't move for unboxed A500s on ebay. Now it is single figures, obviously it's not worth the messing about boxing up and going to the post office for £10 sale on ebay (so £8 by the time PayPal and ebay have taken their cut)

If I really wanted one I would ask here, but they're not cheap on forums!

[Digiman]

I've got so many I've started cutting them up for parts!

Nice

I cut up a couple to replace broken draw fronts in my freezer and put the Commodore logo on the door :roflmao:

I had a quick look and it's pretty even for 4000s and 500s currently up for auction. The 2000 & 3000 being less available than the 4000.